About Boxes
Learn what Boxes are, how they expire and where to find your sent and received Boxes in a Production Project.
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This article is about Boxes in Production Projects. In Archive Projects, the Deliveries page replaces the Boxes page: see About Deliveries.
Mnemonica Boxes send archives to other Mnemonica users. To open the Boxes, click Boxes in the bottom bar. The Boxes page has three tabs: Incoming, Outgoing and History.
The Incoming tab contains the received Boxes. The Outgoing tab contains the draft and sent Boxes. The page works like an email inbox. You can also open the Incoming and Outgoing tabs from the Hub.
You can send archives with no limitations in size and nesting. The content can come from:
- the Screening Rooms
- your local drive (any files)
Boxes are personal. Users can share them with other people in the Team: see Shared Boxes.
Box expiration
The Box service is not a storage service. It is a file transfer service. For this reason, each Box has an expiration time:
- Drafts: 5 days
- Sent and received: 1 to 7 days, user-defined
After the deadline, the Box expires and disappears from the incoming or outgoing list. Mnemonica deletes all uploaded media. Media that comes from the Screening Rooms is not affected.
While a sent Box is still alive, you can send it again to anyone. Each delivery renews the Box expiration date.
Box deliveries
When you send a Box to someone, a delivery is made. In addition to the Box content, each delivery includes:
- one recipient
- an expiration date
- an attached message
If you send a Box to multiple recipients, each recipient makes a separate delivery. The detail panel of the Box lists its deliveries in the Deliveries tab.
A delivery is not a Box and contains no files.
Sent and received Boxes history
Mnemonica saves each delivery in the History tab as soon as it is made. The tab contains all the sent and received deliveries of a Project. It is the log of your file transfer activity.
Use the filters on the toolbar to find a delivery in the list.
Using Boxes in the Mobile App
In the Mnemonica Mobile App, you can create, fill with files, seal and send Boxes as in the web app. You cannot download the Boxes you receive on mobile.
Saving Box content to a Screening Room
When you receive a Box, you can save its content to a Screening Room. See Saving Box content to a Screening Room.
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