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MBaas
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Cancel a background job

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I kicked off what I thought was a minor copy job yesterday afternoon, left the machine running and noticed it was still going this morning:
(Somewhere a wheel went off in the VPN, I assume - it shouldn't have taken that long)
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Wouldn't it be nice if there was a "Cancel" option?
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Agreed.

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:tup:
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MBaas wrote: 14 Feb 2024 08:29 Wouldn't it be nice if there was a "Cancel" option?
It absolutely would be nice so that's a +1 from me. I've needed that several times :titter:
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This begs the question: If there is another job waiting in the queue, should it be triggered automatically if the current job is cancelled?

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funny that you're asking this now - exactly the situation I'm in atm. So I'd say yes, if should...
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Next beta. :)

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