Preserve Metadata in Box to OneDrive for Business File Transfers

Any Box to OneDrive for Business file and folder transfer is incomplete if it does not include preservation of metadata. For businesses, having all the metadata intact in the target cloud (OneDrive for Business) post-migration is critical to ensure:

• Proper user collaboration
• Protection of sensitive information
• Proper traceability of data history

How to Preserve Metadata during Box to OneDrive for Business File Transfers?

Since manual approaches are not feasible for retaining metadata of files and folders, your team must choose a migration tool that is fully developed for this migration combination and has the functionality to retain the metadata without corrupting the files and folders located in Box.

At CloudFuze, our content migration tool X-Change has some of the most advanced functionalities in the industry. With our tool, your team can preserve all the critical metadata, when transferring files and folders from Box to OneDrive for Business, including:

• Sharing permissions
• Timestamps
• File versions
• External shares
• Shared links
• In-line file comments

Preserve Sharing Permissions

Our migration tool can retain permissions of root and subfolders and root and inner files. Here’s a screenshot of the option to select the migration of permissions in our migration webapp:

Our tool ensures accurate preservation of sharing permissions by migrating them as per the user roles in Box and OneDrive.

Preserve Timestamps

Retaining timestamps during Box to OneDrive for Business file transfers also becomes simple and hassle-free with our migration tool. As shown in the screenshot below, you just have to select the “Preserve Timestamps” option to have the metadata migrated over to OneDrive.

Preserve File Versions

Retaining version history when transferring files from Box to OneDrive for Business is often a challenge, as most files have more than one version. However, our tool has the capability to migrate either all or specific versions. This way, your team can migrate version history entirely or selectively, as shown in the screenshot below:

Preserve External Shares

Preserving sharing permissions with external collaboration also becomes effortless with our migration tool. Select the “External Shares” option to migrate file and folder permissions of external collaborators.

Preserve Shared Links

Similarly, you can preserve shared links when migrating from Box to OneDrive by choosing this exact option in our migration tool. We ensure that the links do not break in the destination cloud.

Preserve In-Line File Comments

Lastly, our tool also allows for accurate preservation of in-line file comments which, in many cases, can be critical to user collaboration and operational efficiency. As shown in the screenshot below, you can select the “In-Line File Comments” option.

Leverage our industry-leading tool to migrate your company’s data from Box to OneDrive in secure and advanced ways. We help you achieve enterprise-grade results with our proven migration methodologies. Connect with our migration team today.