Migrate Content and Metadata from Box to Dropbox

Organizations can migrate content from Box to Dropbox along with metadata to ensure that the history of all the files is intact post-migration. At the same time, preserving metadata at the destination cloud will help users to maintain collaboration and improve efficiency. To achieve this, your IT team will require the right tool to support these features and a reliable migration service provider for assistance.

Let’s dive deep to learn the approaches to migrate from Box to Dropbox, including content and metadata.

Migrate All Types of Files from Box to Dropbox

When migrating all types of files from Box to Dropbox, organizations must follow a systematic approach as it is a complex process. Since Box is an amalgamation of various documents, files, and folders, your IT team needs to be extra cautious when migrating all types of files from Box to Dropbox.
The files that you can migrate are

• Documents
• Spreadsheets
• Presentations

Once all these files are migrated from Box to Dropbox, you can validate the files to ensure that it is migrated successfully. Learn about our cloud migration customer stories to know how our team has transformed their cloud office migrations with end-to-end support.

Preserve Metadata When Migrating Content from Box to Dropbox

Though migrating Box data to Dropbox is important for businesses, preserving metadata is equally important as it gives information about the documents such as date created, date modified, file size, file permissions, and more. Therefore, fully retaining and preserving metadata helps businesses protect sensitive information, trace back to old files, and enhance user collaboration.

To migrate and preserve metadata, your organization might require an advanced cloud migration tool and expert guidance to ensure that your team can overcome any potential challenges.

At CloudFuze, we offer Box to Dropbox content migration for enterprises and SMBs with our advanced tool that has unique functionalities to support your requirements. With our tool, your IT team can perform the migration and preserve metadata of all files and folders. It offers the following functionalities:

Preserve Permissions

Our migration tool gives you the option to select the permissions you want to preserve, and it includes preserving permissions of root and subfolder and root files.
In the screenshot below, you can select ‘Subfolder Permissions’ to share permissions.

Preserve File Versions

Files can undergo several edits and modifications over time. It is essential to preserve all the versions of the files while migrating data from Box to Dropbox. Our tool, depending on the organizational requirements, allows you to select the specific versions (5, 10, 15, 20) or all versions. In this way, your team can migrate and preserve file version history.

Preserve Timestamps

Transferring and preserving timestamps during Box to Dropbox migration for enterprises can be challenging. However, with our tool, this process is made simpler. Select the ‘Preserve Timestamps’ option to migrate the timestamps of files and folders.

Preserve External Shares

External shares refer to collaborating with partners outside your organization. We help you migrate external shares after you select the ‘External Shares’ option in the tool when migrating from Box to Dropbox. The permission levels of files and folders of external partners are retained at the destination cloud.

Preserve Shared Links

You can migrate shared links of files, folders, and web links generated in Box. Select the ‘Shared Links’ option in the tool to migrate all the links.

This ensures that the shared links, access to files and folders, and user collaboration are preserved in the destination cloud.

Preserve Inline Comments

All the inline comments added in the documents can be crucial for workflows. It helps the users to work efficiently and be aligned with the team’s goals. Selecting the ‘In-line Comments’ option will migrate all the comments from Box data to Dropbox and preserve the same at the destination cloud.

Perform Content and Metadata Migration from Box to Dropbox with CloudFuze

Take advantage of our scalable cloud migration tool to accurately migrate content and data from Box to Dropbox. We ensure that your organization achieves high-quality results with our right strategies. To learn more about our migration methodologies, connect with us today.