Syncing photos and catalogue over two Macs, using Box

There's me thinking I was dead clever. I use Box for my business filing, so have unlimited storage and can sync to my two Macs. But it turns out that Box can only sync 40,000 files, and, the killer is, it won't sync the catalogue previews file. These are things they plan to sort in their summer update.
So, there's me thinking I could use Box to run Lightroom on two Macs, in the field and at home, all nicely syncronised. But it's not quite going to work. I'm wondering if I can just copy the previews file back and forth over my home network, and let Box sync the rest.
Anyone have any ideas?
thanks

Sure you can copy the previews baqck and forth. But have you looked at the size of the Preview folder? This isn't a 10-second job, this is a huge copy. But if you want to, go right ahead.
But, why bother? Lightroom will regenerate its own previews if needed. If you've got everything else synched, having the previews match on both machines seems to me to be irrelevant, LR will generate/update the previews when needed.

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