Manage Box Files and Folders

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The vendor's website contains useful information on how to manage Box files and folders. Start with the following:

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Assign Tasks in Box

Box makes it easy to share your ideas and collaborate on projects together, all in one secure location. For more information about assigning tasks in Box, view the vendor's article on Adding...

Box Departmental Folders

Box makes it easy to share folders. It’s quite likely that the folder list that you see in Box is a mixture of your folders and those that other people have shared with you. For personal...

Box Feature: Request Files

You can easily create a location where anyone can send you files; they don't even need to have a Box account. You can give people a link or put a widget on most websites, blogs, or social...

Box Relay Provides Workflow Functionality

Box Relay workflow automation can help you automate and streamline content-based workflows in folders you own, co-own, or edit. Relay's straightforward interface allows you to build a...

Collaborate in Box

How to work as a team and share files and tasks in Box

Cornell-Specific Information about Box Shared Links

The Cornell default link is "people in this folder," which means people who already have access. You have to make an explicit decision to make the links more open. A standard Box...

Delete Items in Box and Restore from Trash

Box has a Trash you can send items to when you don't need them anymore. You can restore items from Trash to your account for thirty days, after which they are permanently deleted. See Box's...

Download Files and Folders from Box

You can download files or folders from Box to your computer or device. You may want to do this when the content no longer needs to be shared with multiple people through Box, but you'd like...

Edit Files in Box

Box allows you to edit some file types directly in Box. For more information see the vendor's article, Opening and Editing Files with Box Tools.

Editing Microsoft Office Files in Box

You can edit Microsoft Office documents stored in Box either online using the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Online apps, or on your computer desktop using the full version of...

Get Started with Box Drive

The vendor's documentation recommends that you not run Box Drive and Box Sync on the same machine. Both the vendor's installer and the Cornell Managed Desktop installer will walk you through...

Log In to Cornell Box

If you are part of Weill Cornell Medicine, do not click Continue. Instead, click Collaborate with your Ithaca colleagues by signing into your Weill Box account, then log in with your Weill email...

Manage Box Files and Folders

The vendor's website contains useful information on how to manage Box files and folders. Start with the following: Create New Files and Folders Moving and Copying...

Move Files from a Different File Sharing Service to Cornell Box

You will have to download the content from your previous file sharing service, and then upload the content to your Cornell Box account. For more information see How to Upload Files to Box.

Move Your Data Stored in Box

Whether you are joining or leaving Cornell, or you want to transfer your Box data to another individual, group or storage service, here are some suggestions to move files in the Box cloud-based environment.

Organize Your Box Folders

People who use Box eventually find themselves faced with a long list of folders and files, which can make it difficult to find what you're looking for. Here are some clutter-conquering...

Set Box Collaboration Permissions

Change collaborator access levels in Box

Set Email Notifications in Box

You can configure Box to notify you when certain items happen. See the vendor's Manage Account Settings article for details.

Set Folder Access Levels

See the Box article on Folder and Account Sharing Settings, which includes information on setting folder access and related topics.

Set Up Box Sync

We recommend Box Drive rather than Box Sync. You cannot use both. View the IT News article Box Drive Feature: Mark for Offline. Get Started with Box Drive. Setting...

Share Files in Box

See the Box article on sharing files via links.

Trash In File Collaboration Services Is Eventually Automatically Deleted

Files placed in the Trash or Recycle bin for Cornell's Box, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, and Google Drive will automatically be deleted permanently after a set amount of time. Permanent...

Updates to Box Edit / Box Tools (2018)

What are the differences between Box Edit, Box Sync, and Box Drive? Box Edit is an add-on feature that allows you to open and edit files stored in Box. Designed for all file types, browsers...

Upload Files to Box

Step-by-step instructions on how to upload files can be found in the vendor's article on uploading files to Box.

Why Use Box Departmental Folders?

A clean way to separate personal and departmental data.

Why Use Box?

Box has the flexibility for offline and online file editing, many levels of collaboration, and is suited to house specific regulated data at Cornell.

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