Pausing and Cancelling Tasks

The Task window lets you pause, resume, and cancel tasks.

To pause a task:

Drag the appropriate task from the Active Tasks pane to the Paused Tasks pane.

The task moves to the top of the Paused Tasks pane.

To pause all tasks:

Choose Pause All from the Task window menu.

To resume a task:

Drag a task from the Paused Tasks pane to the Active Tasks pane. The task returns to its previous position in the queue.

To resume all paused tasks:

Select Resume All from the Task window menu. All tasks in the Paused Tasks pane (except failed tasks) are moved to the Active Tasks pane.

To cancel a task:

1 Highlight any task in either pane of the Task window.

2 Press Delete to remove it from the Task window.

To cancel all tasks:

1 Select any single task in either pane.

2 Press Command+A (Mac) Control+A (Windows) to select all the tasks in that pane.

3 Press Delete.

This command cannot be undone.

About Cancelling Tasks

Some tasks involve one or more sub-tasks. Deleting a task cannot undo sub-tasks already completed. For example, if importing and converting multiple files appears as a single task, deleting that task before it is completed stops the import and conversion process, but files already converted and imported remain on disk. If you want to cancel a task involving multiple sub-tasks, you can instead let the process complete and then use Undo to completely undo all sub-tasks, as available.