No Visibility or Cancel Control for In-Progress Google Drive Downloads
Users downloading files from Google Docs and Drive have no way to see which downloads are in progress or cancel them mid-transfer. This lack of feedback has caused data to be lost or files to become inaccessible when downloads fail silently.
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Google Drive Downloads Silently Fail to Produce the File Despite Showing Downloading
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Missing Option to Delete Downloaded Offline Files in Docs App
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