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#APPLE OS X MAIL DOWNLOADING ATTACHMENT HANGS MAC OS X#

Ultimately, I had to go into the folder, and delete its contents in small batches. You can select them, but you can’t delete them.Īfter a while of frustration, an error message popped up saying certain files in my repo folder couldn’t be deleted, at which point the folder re-appeared in the “Recently Deleted” area. Step two was going into “Recently Deleted”, and then purging the folder from there.īut this turned out to be very confusing, because although the purging of the repo folder appears immediate in the browser UI, it’s actually a very long process that’s happening-in the browser! While that’s going on (with no UI feedback) other files and folders in “Recently Deleted” area appear grayed out. Step one was selecting my repo folder in Documents, and deleting it. I then went into iCloud Drive via the website, and started deleting everything from there. To solve the problem, after moving my GitHub folder outside of Documents, I then backed up all the files in Desktop and Documents on my Mac that I need, and disabled “iCloud Drive” in the iCloud area of the system preferences, and instructed the Mac to delete all the local files.

One of my repositories had literally tens of thousands of files, and even though I had deleted it long ago on my Mac, I discovered through troubleshooting that it was still present in iCloud Drive, when accessed via the web. I think, but can’t be sure, that the problem was related to allowing GitHub Desktop to store my repositories in the “Documents” folder, which is synchronized with iCloud Drive. Since I couldn’t find any solution to this through Googling, I wanted to document how I solved the problem for others who may be experiencing the same.

#APPLE OS X MAIL DOWNLOADING ATTACHMENT HANGS MAC OS X#

Recently, my MacBook Pro, running Mac OS X Mojave, got into a state in which the Finder wasn’t uploading or download files to and from iCloud Drive.

Apple os x mail downloading attachment hangs