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I don't know which one would work better. With Wine, every application is different. Try both. 

And yes, you can change the virtual drive's Windows versions without fear of breaking things. Although, if the drive starts getting grumpt, the best thing is to delete the virtual drive and start over from scratch, until you find the right mix of Wine version, Components, Windows version, etc.. When testing like this, that is just the workflow. lol. 

And yeah. I will raise my Pale Ale to that. :)

Very annoying forum characteristic : timeout.

I wrote a detailed reply of how to do this BoxSync and all my observations, took me about half hour

By the time I clicked send I had timed out and was logged out.  All writing was lost.  (&(^%%##

Yeah. I have had that happen on other sites, too. I usually type in a text editor for long ones, or just  copy/paste the text as I am typing, just in case. 

BoxSync v 3.x works flawlessly (Wine 1.7.35 x32bit)

Step-by-step installation :

• Install latest Wine(1.6 latest and stable, suggested by Wine, at time this was written) and Latest PlayOnLinux (4.2.5)
• PlayOnLinux(POL)>Tools>ManageVersions add the Wine 1.7.35 x32bit
• POL>Configure>New select the wine version above
• Remove Wine's own .net:

  PlayOnLinux -> configure -> select virtual drive -> Misc. tab -> open a shell and type
  POL_Call POL_Remove_winemono
  (Thank Ronin Dusette for this step! in your mind, don't type)

• Add Windows .net versions :  POL>Configuration>Install components  dotnet20sp2, then dotnet35sp1, finally dotnet40
• From POL Configuration window Miscellaneous>Run.exe button run the BoxSync version 3, .msi setup
• At the end of installation BoxSync will prompt you for account details to sync your files
• BoxSync will prompt you to upgrade to version 4.  Did not work for me, so easy way is to say no.  If you succeed with that please inform.
• You can add a shortcut to your Unity Desktop for Box (select the Box.exe ,  not the install!) or just (virtual) boot your Windows reboot from POL>Configure>Wine>Reboot Windows
• BoxSync will promptly show up on your (Ubuntu) tray, up there by the clock, etc

Special notes:

• BoxSync icon on tray correctly changes to show when syncing and when complete, accordingly
• BoxSync case menu correctly appears when you right click the tray icon
• All settings and options I tried work
• UTF-8 characters in folders and filenames work

Very special notes:
For you dual booters with a Windows BoxSync version on same PC

• You can place your BoxSync folder on any partition (must be mounted, needless to say.  You can mount on startup)
• You can point to the same BoxSync folder Windows uses BUT it actually doesn't work properly.  When you start BoxSync with Windows it will not recognize those files and folders synced by Ubuntu (even though same Box location) and will make copies of them all locally and up in the cloud :  thisfile.ext --> thisfile(your_username).ext .  This is true the opposite way round also.  This is not a POL, Wine or BoxSync fault, it's the correct behavior because BoxSync under each OS keeps a record in the form of a DataBase in a local file.  Windows and Ubuntu have different defaults for the location.  If you find a way to point to the same or merge these files it should work... let me know.

 

Edited by csimeon