![]() Open a text editor - I’m partial to TextWrangler on the Mac - and paste this: ![]() Searching for it via Spotlight is expedient enough. Was Box Edit running? You’ll want to delete that, too. ~/Box Sync/ (remember, this won’t exist if you’ve renamed it or deleted it as suggested above) ~/Library/Application Support/Box/Box Sync/ Rename your Box Sync folder (to any other name), or delete it if you’re 1000% confident those files are safe somewhere else. Kill the Box Sync and Box Sync Monitor processes, if they’re running. Right-click the b icon in the taskbar and choose Quit. What can you do with Box Sync? Let’s take a ride… As of this posting, Box can’t handle symlinks. With other cloud services you could create a symlink.With many other cloud sync clients, you can set a custom location in the program’s Preferences.Let’s say you want Box to sync to a different location. Lots of situations, to be sure, where this default behavior is pathological. Have an SSD and would like to minimize extraneous writes?.Don’t have enough space in that location?.In fact, when you install it and log in with your tOSU credentials, it automatically creates that location (if non-existent) and starts syncing there. I can see the appeal for enterprise management, but those aims could have been achieved without making things so obtuse for end-users.īox Sync for Mac wants to put your files in your home folder. In fact, it feels like Box had to go to real lengths to make it so difficult to do something basic like, oh, choose where your synced files live. Ease of customization is not one of them (sync reliability prior to v4.0.something was sketchy, too, but let’s stay focused). TOSU has partnered with the Box cloud storage service.
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