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Open More → Job Insights. Each background job — moves, app moves, cloud transfers, clean-ups, local snapshots and the storage watch — has one card showing its last outcome, when it last ran, and any problems, with the reason recorded in plain English.

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A card that says some runs didn't finish is telling you the job mostly works but had failures; open it to read the specific reason before retrying.

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Troubleshooting & messages · Background service, pauses and self-healing

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How do I find out why a background job failed?

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Short answer: Open More → Job Insights. Each background job has a card with its last outcome, last run time and any problems, explained in plain English.

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Open More → Job Insights. Each background job — moves, app moves, cloud transfers, clean-ups, local snapshots and the storage watch — has one card showing its last outcome, when it last ran, and any problems, with the reason recorded in plain English.

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A card that says some runs didn't finish is telling you the job mostly works but had failures; open it to read the specific reason before retrying.

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