Connecting Box

To connect Box, open Remotes & Accounts, click Add Account, choose Box, give it a nickname and click Open browser to sign in. You sign in and grant access on Box's own page in your usual browser, so your Box password is never typed into Storage Studio.

Step by step

1. Choose Connect Accounts… from the More menu, then click Add Account.
2. Select Box in the list.
3. Type a Nickname you'll recognise, such as box-work. Letters, numbers, spaces and _ - . + @ are allowed, and it can't start with a dash.
4. Click Open browser to sign in. The sheet tells you which browser it's about to use.
5. Sign in to Box and grant access.
6. When the browser shows You're connected, close that tab. The sheet finishes by itself and shows Account added.

%% caption: The sign-in steps for Box, and the three ways a sign-in can end
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  A[Open browser to sign in] --> B[Sign in on Box's page]
  B --> C[Grant access]
  C --> D[Account added]
  B -->|You click Cancel| E[Authentication canceled]
  B -->|No answer for 5 minutes| F[Sign-in timed out]
  E --> G[Nothing is added]
  F --> G

The waiting step lists what to do and says the window finishes by itself, so there's nothing to copy or paste between the browser and the app.

More than one Box account

Give each Box account its own nickname. If your browser is already signed in to Box and goes straight to the wrong account, sign out of Box in the browser and try again so you can choose. You can connect up to 5 Box accounts; the count beside Box in the Add Account list shows how many you've used.

Using Box with Storage Studio

A connected Box account can be:

• a source or destination in Data Transfers, including when copying between two cloud accounts;
• a folder inside the Storage Studio location in Finder, turned on or off in the Mounting tab;
• a backup destination;
• somewhere to look for duplicates.

If the sign-in doesn't finish

• Sign-in timed out after 5 minutes. Nothing was added — click Try Again to restart. — do as it says, and finish signing in a little sooner.
• Could not add account — the sheet shows the reason. Click Try Again.
• The Add Account button is greyed out — the cloud transfer engine is missing from this copy of the app; see moves or transfers say a component is missing.

Later, you can check the account with Test connection — see testing, editing and removing an account.

See also: Cloud accounts · When an account needs signing in again · How your account sign-ins are stored