Data Transfers · External drive and disk space
What do the Check drive and Abandon pending buttons do?
Short answer: Check drive re-tests now whether your external drive is reachable for a waiting transfer. Abandon pending cancels every transfer waiting for the drive — no files are deleted.
Both are for transfers that are Waiting for drive.
- Check drive (on a selected transfer) re-tests right away whether your external drive is reachable. Normally this happens by itself when the drive is mounted; the button is for when you don't want to wait.
- Abandon pending (in the toolbar, shown only when something is waiting) cancels every transfer waiting for the drive. Use it if you won't be reconnecting that drive.
Abandoning doesn't delete any files; the transfers are simply marked cancelled.
Related: “Waiting for drive”