UW-Madison Box - Preserve your personal Box account and data
Audience: Individuals who created a personal Box account using their UW-Madison email address.
Background: Select personal Box accounts that were created using a first.last@wisc.edu or subdomain (ex: bucky@doit.wisc.edu) email address will be converted into a managed UW-Madison Box account to ensure data shared with a UW-Madison email address is protected by the UW-Madison Box license agreement.
This document lists options for either preserving your personal Box account or your personal Box account data before the account is converted into a managed UW-Madison Box account.
Option 1: Preserve Your Personal Box Account
Select this option if you do not want your personal Box account and its data to be converted into a managed UW-Madison Box account.
- Change your personal Box account's primary email address from a UW-Madison email address to a personal email address. View Instructions Here.
Option 2: Preserve Personal Box Account Data
Select this option if you would like your personal Box account to be converted into a managed UW-Madison Box account but you do not want your personal data moved into the managed account.
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Transfer ownership of your personal Box files from your current personal Box account that uses a UW-Madison email address to a newly created personal Box account that uses a personal email address. View Instructions Here.