Hold Everything Apparently there are many show-stopper problems with Box Drive on MacOS, so stick with BoxSync until resolved (or switch to Dropbox, Onedrive, or others that do not have these major issues.)

CASE ID #1828748 2018-01-22

On Mac, Box Drive always fails with error if you try to create or sync any Keynote, Pages, or TextEdit files in Box (.pages keynote .key .graffle)

This problem first reported 9/29/2017 at https://community.box.com/t5/Desktop-and-Mobile-Forum/Mac-Box-app-Error-Code-36/td-p/44715

And there seem to be other major defects in Mac BoxDrive per: https://community.box.com/t5/Desktop-and-Mobile-Forum/Best-Practices-iWork-Integration-Keynote-Numbers-Pages/m-p/66069/thread-id/2553 first reported mid Jan 2019

Feb 2019... Given up on Box Drive. For reasons above. With newest 10.14.3 (or 10.13.6) BoxDrive seems to completely hang Finder or apps that think they have files open in Box Drive if network drops. Also even with the box-addon-extension for Finder disabled. Since box only supports 2 current macos versions, that means a macos upgrade very 2 years. Most software supports at least 3 current macos versions. There are just two many new problems with box-drive vs box-sync. More than one mac use said, and I quote

I hate box drive

Over past few weeks, as I dig deeper, keep finding more show stoppers with Box Drive that seem very unlikely to get fixed in 2019. At least that is my impression after thoroughly looking over the various box websites including box pulse... In general you'll find a lot of exasperated posters at various links listed below. The response from box usually can seem rather clueless. And the general pattern of requests being repeatedly made many times for months or even for years, with rarely a useful reponse, let alone any announced ETA for any fixes/features requested ;-)

• Difficult to tell what is mine vs what is shared with me... All lumped together. Any folder shared with me shows up in my home-folder. No ETA for Fixes: asked for since 2015 at https://community.box.com/t5/Web-App-Forum/Move-collaboration-folders/td-p/13238/page/2 since 2016 at https://community.box.com/t5/Web-App-Forum/Moving-shared-folder-in-my-local-Box/td-p/10437and since 2017 at https://community.box.com/t5/Web-App-Forum/Grouping-of-folders-shared-with-me/td-p/9243 The lumping everything together works if you have some sort of tags you can search for, like folder-less sharepoint does. Perhaps in future Box-drive built-in search can make use of the indexing done in cloud, but anytime soon?. Meanwhile, the Box folks say "Plan your folder structure"

• Box-drive search can not be narrowed by owner, date, subfolder tree, etc. No ETA for fixes: asked for since Feb 2018 at https://community.box.com/t5/Desktop-and-Mobile-Forum/Searching-Box-Drive-on-Desktop/td-p/51801. So, for example, a huge "Collaborate" folder has been shared with me, and for many searches in Box-Drive about 90% of the hits are in this huge folder. At present there is no way to limit the search to only items that I own. The only current work-around is to search at the website. Spotlite on mac cannot search the fuse-mounted Box-Drive, but some 3rd party apps like EasyFind and FindAnyFile can search while on internet. Tho they will be slow, especially when searching for content in a file, it they do not do indexing (such as mdworker/spotlite on mac, or the equivalent back-ground indexing daemon on windows.)

• Cannot exclude files by type (more a Box Sync issue but could be issue with Box-Drive with "Make available offline". No ETA, asked for since 2017 at https://community.box.com/t5/Archive-Forum/Feature-Request-Keep-certain-file-types-from-syncing/td-p/6201

• Box-Drive does not support mac metadata, like Finder tags (colored dots), comments, etc. It certainly does not support syncing such metadata between macs (Note that dropbox seems to be the only cloud service that can do this as dropbox uses extended-attributes of it's own, so it seems to sync most other extended attributes of the filesystem, be it HPFS+ or the new APFS on ssds.) Box-drive seems, at least on mac, to be a fuse-mounted filesystem of type "Box", and I'm pretty sure I found some info to indicate that the "Box" filesystem type is related to or based on msdos/FAT32 or other relatively primative filesystem.