# Box Remote mounts and functions but doesn't auto refresh content **URL:** \ **Category:** Help and Support\ **Created:** [August 5, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/box-remote-mounts-and-functions-but-doesnt-auto-refresh-content/40630 "2023-08-05T15:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nachobel](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@nachobel](https://forum.rclone.org/u/nachobel)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/box-remote-mounts-and-functions-but-doesnt-auto-refresh-content/40630/1 "2023-08-05T15:26:08Z")
Thanks upfront for anyone who can take a look. If anyone uses box with a VFS service, please reply with you service file with [Box.com](http://Box.com). #### What is the problem you are having with rclone? I have rclone set up to mount a [box.com](http://box.com) account. I am able to se this setup in my listremotes command as expected. Using a command such as `rclone copy google:/test chunker_remote:` works as expected (files copy over and appear in the [box.com](http://box.com) web UI as encrypted files). I am mounting the rclone remote with a service file, and I used the same one from a Google Drive remote and it is causing issues. I am able to mount the remote and view the files that are on it. However, if I add files to the remote via the above rclone command or a rclone move command, the files successfully add to the remote however what I can see mounted on my filesystem does not show the newly added data. I still see the file structure as it was when I initially ran the mount service, and to see the new data I need to reload the mount service. I can verify things move over via the [Box.com](http://Box.com) webUI as well as the rclone lsd command. I am looking for an rclone VFS service template that I can use with [Box.com](http://Box.com). Here is the template I'm currently using. Permissions on /mnt/box are myuser:myuser, the same as the other folders in /mnt. ```auto [Unit] Description=Rclone VFS Mount After=network-online.target [Service] User=myuser Group=myuser Type=notify ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10 ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount \ --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gec> --config=/home/myuser/.config/rclone/rclone.conf \ --allow-other \ --rc \ --rc-no-auth \ --rc-addr=localhost:5573 \ --drive-skip-gdocs \ --vfs-read-chunk-size=64M \ --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit=2048M \ --buffer-size=64M \ --poll-interval=15s \ --dir-cache-time=1000h \ --timeout=10m \ --drive-chunk-size=64M \ --drive-pacer-min-sleep=10ms \ --drive-pacer-burst=1000 \ --umask=002 \ --syslog \ -v \ chunker_remote: /mnt/box ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true --url http://localhost:5573 _asyn> ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /mnt/box Restart=on-abort RestartSec=5 StartLimitInterval=60s StartLimitBurst=3 [Install] WantedBy=default.target ``` #### Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command. ```auto rclone v1.61.1 - os/version: ubuntu 22.04 (64 bit) - os/kernel: 5.15.0-78-generic (x86_64) - os/type: linux - os/arch: amd64 - go/version: go1.19.4 - go/linking: static - go/tags: none ``` #### Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive) > **[Secure, AI-Powered Content Management, Workflow & Collaboration](https://box.com)** > > The intelligent Content Cloud makes it easy to automate workflows, collaborate internally and externally, and protect your sensitive data, all on one platform. #### The rclone config contents with secrets removed. ```auto [google] type = drive client_id = *.apps.googleusercontent.com client_secret = * scope = drive token = {"access_token":"*","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"1//01_*","expiry":"2023-08-04T23:57:54.15060509-04:00"} team_drive = * [box_remote] type = box token = {"access_token":"*","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"*","expiry":"2023-08-05T00:04:14.56420928-04:00"} [crypt_remote] type = crypt remote = box_remote:data password = * password2 = * filename_encoding = base32768 [chunker_remote] type = chunker remote = crypt_remote: chunk_size = 4Gi name_format = *.rcc### hash_type = sha1all ``` ---
**Author:** ![kapitainsky](https://forum.rclone.org/user_avatar/forum.rclone.org/kapitainsky/32/14450_2.png) [@kapitainsky](https://forum.rclone.org/u/kapitainsky)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/box-remote-mounts-and-functions-but-doesnt-auto-refresh-content/40630/2 "2023-08-05T15:34:11Z")
Thank you for creating separate thread. It is BTW well thought systemd service file for gdrive mount. Box is not polling remote (you can remove `--poll-interval=15s` flag) changes from the remote are only picked up after time set by this flag: ```auto --dir-cache-time duration Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s) ``` you set it to `--dir-cache-time=1000h` so it is indeed slow:) On Google Drive polling worked but unfortunately not with Box. You can remove as well: ```auto --drive-chunk-size=64M \ --drive-pacer-min-sleep=10ms \ --drive-pacer-burst=1000 \ ``` these flags are only applicable to Google Drive (hence `drive-` in their names). To control API calls limits you could add: ```auto # Set the tpslimit --tpslimit 15 \ # Set the tpslimit-burst --tpslimit-burst 0 \ ``` feel free to experiment with `--tpslimit` value. I think 15 is good start but only live tests can tell. PS. Rclone is now v1.63.1 - you are little behind with 1.62.1. I would actually recommend for box beta v1.64 - as things are actively fixed now with box getting more popular: ```auto sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash -s beta ``` When it is released you can switch to stable by running: ```auto sudo rclone selfupdate --stable ``` ---
**Author:** ![nachobel](https://forum.rclone.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@nachobel](https://forum.rclone.org/u/nachobel)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2023, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/box-remote-mounts-and-functions-but-doesnt-auto-refresh-content/40630/3 "2023-08-06T04:52:02Z")
Thank you. That helped a lot. I changed the refresh interval to 5m and it seems to be working so far. Here is my VFS service file. ```auto [Unit] Description=Rclone VFS Mount After=network-online.target [Service] User=myuser Group=myuser Type=notify ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10 ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount \ --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.131 > --config=/home/myuser/.config/rclone/rclone.conf \ --allow-other \ --rc \ --rc-no-auth \ --rc-addr=localhost:5573 \ --vfs-read-chunk-size=128M \ --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit=off \ --buffer-size=1G \ --dir-cache-time=5m0s \ --tpslimit 15 \ --tpslimit-burst 0 \ --fast-list \ --syslog \ -v \ chunker_remote: /mnt/box ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true --url http://localhost:5573 _async=true ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /mnt/box Restart=on-abort RestartSec=5 StartLimitInterval=60s StartLimitBurst=3 [Install] WantedBy=default.target ``` edit: I guess I'll ask - is there a better/recommended way to mount the box drive onto my local filesystem? The service file worked great for google with drive polling, but without it, I just thought I'd ask to see if there was a community preferred way. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.rclone.org/uploads/default/original/2X/3/39ad3235f6ffec76ccd0c81616bd55697b4c300d.png) [@system](https://forum.rclone.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/box-remote-mounts-and-functions-but-doesnt-auto-refresh-content/40630/4 "2023-08-09T04:52:58Z")
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