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Forum Discussion
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...
Asking this again as I've seen others ask the same thing but NOTHING has been done about it. Or at least nothing I have been able to find. It has already ruined my work twice before and has made my life miserable.
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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 whole folder of files downloading. I work in production and regularly have folders containing hundreds of gigabytes worth of data in them, and have accidentally made folders 'available offline' several times now...resulting in my computer spending hours or days downloading files only for me to make them 'online only' once again...
This is a HUGE issue and needs to be addressed immediately or I'll cancel my account and find alternatives.
Please sort it out or show me how to fix it if a fix is available...
