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GadgetGrrl's avatar
GadgetGrrl
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

How do I permanently stop a huge sync?

I accidentally started an enormous sync to my iMac (10k + files urk) that I can't seem to stop.  My only option appears to be to pause it.  I don't want all this data to be sync'ed to my computer at ...
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Octavio Warnock-Graham's avatar
Octavio Warnock-Graham
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

Please give us the option of hard canceling out of synching as it is an enormous time waster on those rare occasions users accidentally synch a top-level folder. 

 

I'm losing hours out of my day as Dropbox re-indexes and downloads my old folder system. 

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