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Cancel an online-only file download (as it is happening)
Hi Folks,
Well this is odd.
If you have a large online-only file and you (double-)click it to access it in Windows Explorer, Dropbox starts downloading it (syncing it).
So far so good.
But wh...
Hi MikeB1971, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Currently, there isn't a direct feature to stop this downloading of the file when you attempt to open it.
What you could try is to right click the file or folder, and mark it as available online-only, so that they won't try to download.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi MikeB1971, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Currently, there isn't a direct feature to stop this downloading of the file when you attempt to open it.
What you could try is to right click the file or folder, and mark it as available online-only, so that they won't try to download.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
Jay wrote:Hi MikeB1971, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Currently, there isn't a direct feature to stop this downloading of the file when you attempt to open it.
What you could try is to right click the file or folder, and mark it as available online-only, so that they won't try to download.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
Hi Jay,
Just a follow-up on this, right-clicking and resetting the online-only status works! But interestingly, only in native Explorer (I am using Directory Opus, where this does nothing but hang the app).
OK, that's a useful workaround.
I'll just have to remember to keep the mouse cursor away from files that are online-only from now on...
(A "interesting" side effect of accidentally clicking an online-only file and then resetting the status in this way, however, is that it has caused an onging upload to restart. So my 50-gig upload is now restarting instead of continuing at 30 gig where it was. Sigh...)
Thx,
Mike
