Without thinking clearly, I cut and paste a VERY large directory from my PC to my dropbox folder in windows.
DOH! The folder immediately disappeared from my PC and all the empty folders and files are "showing" in dropbox, and the actual data is copying very very slowly.
This will take a month to copy (50GB). How to I cancel out of this? I have two quad core xeons running very hot, and the data upload speed is only about 3Mbps.
Not good.
How to cancel a directory move ( cut and paste) ?
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Re: How to cancel a directory move ( cut and paste) ?
Moving things into the dropbox folder does not remove them from the current PC, it simply starts uploading a copy of those contents - the original is never "removed", it's just shifted into the dropbox folder (which is just a normal folder as far as the shell is concerned).
According to this similar fumble, you may just move the folder directly back out of the dropbox which should then stop the DB process/shell-extension from syncing those contents.
According to this similar fumble, you may just move the folder directly back out of the dropbox which should then stop the DB process/shell-extension from syncing those contents.