Excerpt | ||
---|---|---|
With Box Drive's Mark for Offline feature, your Box cloud content is available wherever you are - in a remote office, traveling on a plane, and so on - regardless of internet connectivity. Just select the Box folders you need access to, and Box Drive automatically downloads all of the folder contents to your computer. If you or someone else make changes to this content while you're offline, Box Drive automatically uploads the revised content when you are back online so you are always working with the most up-to-date versions of your files.
To make content available offline:
In the context menu that displays, click Make Available Offline.
Box Drive immediately begins downloading the contents of this folder to your device. As files and folders download, they display with an |
...
orange Pending |
...
icon, meaning they are in the process of being downloaded. When items finish downloading they display with a |
...
green Available Offline |
...
icon.
If you want to work on a file that is pending, simply open the file. Box Drive automatically moves that file to the front of the queue and downloads it immediately so you can work on the file right away without interruption.
Working by yourself? Open any file in a folder you’ve marked for offline, and:
Collaborating with another person? Box uploads changes as they're saved. However, collaborators cannot see each others' revisions in real-time -- that is, not until after each of you have saved and exited the file and Box Drive syncs all changes. This is true regardless of whether you are working while connected or offline, However, in this case the possibility exists for two collaborators to save conflicting changes on the same file. By way of illustration: if you go back online first, Box uploads and saves your revised file as a new version. When your collaborator goes back online, Box uploads her revised file, but saves it as a separate version. If necessary, you both must then decide which revision to keep and which to discard.
Moving files and folders? Files |
...
always inherit the status of the folder that contain them. In this case, if you move a file into a folder that is available offline, that file will be available offline, regardless of the file’s prior status. Likewise, a file you move into a folder that is available online only will not be available offline, again regardless of its prior status.
There is one exception: when a folder that is online only moves into another folder that is available offline. In that case, the status of the online-only folder changes and its contents are made available offline.
Can you change your mind and make offline folders available only online? Yes. The "available offline" menu item is a toggle. So just as you'd make a folder available offline, you can right-click on an offline folder and, in the context menu that displays, |
...
click Make Available Online Only.
Accessing Box Drive from different machines?
What if I don’t have permission to download a file that's in a folder marked as available offline?
What if I accidentally fill up my device's storage capacity before Drive finishes downloading all my available offline content?
What if I log out of Box Drive before it finishes downloading all my available offline content? |
...