---
id: tuhi-assistant.can-tuhi-stop-pause-or-cancel-something
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/tuhi-assistant/can-tuhi-stop-pause-or-cancel-something
category: "Tuhi, your storage assistant"
subcategory: "What Tuhi can do for you"
question: "Can Tuhi stop, pause, carry on or cancel something for me?"
alt_questions:
  - "Pause the download"
  - "Ask Tuhi to stop the backup"
  - "Carry on with the move"
  - "Cancel the transfer with Tuhi"
  - "Resume my download"
  - "Stop Free Up Space"
  - "Why can't Tuhi stop Smart Care?"
short_answer: "Yes. Ask in your own words and Tuhi stops, pauses, resumes or cancels the download, transfer, folder move, backup or Free Up Space you mean. She asks which if several match, and always asks before a cancel that loses work."
tags: ["tuhi", "pause", "cancel", "downloads", "transfers", "backups"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/tuhi-assistant/can-tuhi-change-things-on-my-mac", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/tuhi-assistant/can-tuhi-download-a-file-from-a-link", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/how-do-i-pause-or-cancel-moves-in-data-parking"]
applies_to: "app>=4.20"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-27
---

# Can Tuhi stop, pause, carry on or cancel something for me?

Yes. Ask in your own words — "pause the download", "stop the backup", "carry on with the move", "cancel that transfer" — and Tuhi does it for the one you mean. It works for downloads, transfers, folder moves, backups and Free Up Space.

- **If more than one thing matches**, she asks which, with a button for each, rather than picking.
- **Stopping or pausing keeps everything done so far**, and carrying on never does anything twice.
- **A cancel that would throw work away is always asked first** — she says what would be lost, such as a download's partial file, before doing it.

She's honest about what each thing can do. A Smart Care run can't be stopped part-way — each step is safe on its own and it finishes shortly — so she says so. A stopped backup runs again at its next scheduled time. Pausing folder moves lets a move that's already running finish its current step, and nothing new starts until you say carry on. Free Up Space keeps whatever it had already freed.

See [what Tuhi can do on your Mac](https://storagestudio.us/faq/tuhi-assistant/can-tuhi-change-things-on-my-mac).