10/31/14 CCB faculty member reported having major problems migrating his data using Box.

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• Was using web browser, not using Box Sync (Mac) since older OS (of source Mac) doesn't support current version of Box Sync.
• He is now using a USB device for this one-time migration (to contemporary Mac and thus contemporary Mac OS) instead.

Here's what I wrote him:

John,
All the problems I had previously worked on were related to v3 of the (Mac) Box Sync client. Many were nominally resolve in v4.

When you run the full Box.com v4 Box sync software on your //new// laptop, does it still suffer from the problems you reported to me today?

Here's what Box.com said about v3 "Box Sync 3.x Behavior, Limitations, and Recommendations", which seemed to mirror some of the problems you saw when using the web interface from your old laptop:

https://support.box.com/entries/20366301-Box-Sync-FAQ

(FWIW, I pulled out the key ones I was seeing for one person, here <https://confluence.cornell.edu/x/SoT-D>).

Box.com's info on v4 shows how many of the v3 limitations had been overcome:

https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/sections/200142218-Box-Sync-4-0

https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/200852677-Box-Sync-4-0-Release-Notes

BUT, they still list limitations, such as blocking "File names that have 8 uppercase hexadecimal digits (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E, or F). For example: 1234AD38 or ABE32BD0":

https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/200908267-Which-File-Types-Are-Ignored-and-Blocked-in-Box-Sync-

Please do let me know if you discover any limitations which matter to you when you use Box Sync (Mac) v4 on your new Mac laptop (if you end up trying it). Thanks! -Oliver.
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Email Sent to : jam99@cornell.edu

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Select extracts from Box.com's web site, re: v3 Sync

https://support.box.com/entries/20366301-Box-Sync-FAQ

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