Box - Promote New Owner
Please note that these instructions are for giving ownership; if you are not the owner of a Box directory you will need to contact the owner and ask them to transfer ownership. In the case of departmental folders that are owned by a former employee, you can reach out to help@doit.wisc.edu to get assistance on recovering ownership of Box files. However, best practices are to transfer ownership before departing the University. Additionally, there are project directories that are available for departmental file sharing.
Transfer ownership of a Box folder to a different account
To transfer ownership of files or folders you own to another Box account:
- Find the folder for which you want to transfer ownership, and click in that folder's row to select it.
- In the list on the right, look for the name of the user or account to which you want to transfer ownership, to see if that account is already a collaborator on the folder. If the account is already a collaborator, skip to step 5.
- In the column on the right, from the drop-down menu, select .
- Enter the email address of the account to which you want to transfer ownership, and then click .
- Once the account has accepted your invitation, click the three dots next to the account you wish to promote to owner, and change that account's current permissions to .
Note:Be sure to select , not .
- In the pop-up that appears, click to confirm that you will no longer own the content, and your permission level will be changed to Editor.