Ending a background file transfer

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Ending a background file transfer Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:52 am • by JacobRyan
I initiated a file transfer with Hazel, unfortunately being a dope I didn't bother checking the eye to see what files it would target and it targeted EVERY file in the folder to copy. Is there anyway you know of to end these file transfers and stop them from continuing?

I've tried Force Quitting and relaunching Finder, and in my experience a restart doesn't help since the transfer is going to a NAS.
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Re: Ending a background file transfer Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:16 pm • by Mr_Noodle
Are you using a script to do these transfers? In any case, if you want to kill the process you need to find the hazelworker process doing it and kill that. I'm not sure what you mean by a restart not helping as rebooting will reset that but you have to make sure to change your rules or pause that folder or else it will start up again.
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Re: Ending a background file transfer Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:53 pm • by JacobRyan
Killing the worker seemed to have stopped the transfers, thank you for your help. Just from previous experience though restarting my computer didn't seem to help the issue as it seemed to just resume it's previous tasks.
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