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Oliver Baldwin's avatar
Oliver Baldwin
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Cancel 'make available offline' downloading process.

Right now it's a huge flaw you cannot cancel the 'make available offline' download mid-process. Especially since it's so easy to accidentally click the 'cloud' icons on MacOS and suddenly have a whol...
desktop
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ginodimeo's avatar
ginodimeo
Helpful | Level 7
12 months ago

I'm bumping this as it, indeed, incredibly annoying. Before this terrible update, if you right-clicked 'make online only' it would end the download process. Not sure why this can't be implemented on this version.

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