Box is a cloud content management and file-sharing service that should be used as a resource for storing Auburn University academic or administrative data. Users can determine how their content can be shared with other users. Users may invite others to view and/or edit an account's shared files, upload documents and photos to shared files, upload documents and photos to a shared file's folder, and give other users rights to view shared files.
Only active students and employees have access to Box. For more information regarding Auburn alumni and Box accounts, visit the Knowledge Base article at aub.ie/gradchanges. For more information regarding Auburn retirees and Box accounts, visit the Knowledge Base article at aub.ie/retirees.
Your Auburn Box account can be accessed in the following ways:
- From a web browser at auburn.box.com
- From a computer using Box Drive
- From a mobile device using Box apps: (Android | iOS)
Transferring Ownership of Box Content
To transfer ownership, you must first be listed as the owner of a folder, and you must then make one of your collaborators the new owner of its parent folder. Each Box folder can only have one official owner. When you transfer ownership to someone else, you become an editor on the folder. When you transfer ownership, you are also transferring ownership of all the folder's contents (subfolders and files).
Note: Box content ownership can also be transferred to a Box admin account within a department, if desired. To do so, you would follow the same steps listed below using the email address of the departmental Box owner account as the Owner.
- Navigate to auburn.box.com. Login with your Auburn credentials (username and password).
- Find the folder to transfer ownership. Before you transfer ownership of a folder, the user/account you are transferring ownership to must first be added as a collaborator (see the Knowledge Base article Box: Sharing Links and Inviting Collaborators).
- Next to the folder, click Options (3 horizontal dots), select More Actions, and select Manage Collaborators.
- On the Collaborators page, locate the user to whom you want to transfer ownership. In the permissions column, click the down arrow next to the permission level, and change it to Owner.
- An alert will pop up explaining that once you transfer ownership, you will become an Editor. Click Okay to complete the transfer. The new owner will receive a notification about the ownership transfer. Once ownership is transferred, the content will no longer count against your storage quota.
More information on transferring folder ownership can be found in at this Box Support Site.