Mac OS / Google Drive problem

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NiceCupOfTea

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Thursday 27th April 2023
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Hard drive was quite full on my MacBook so copy/pasted some files to my Google Drive so as to dlete the originals from my HDD when it had finished - never like to Move with lots of data in case there is an issue part way through.

We're talking about 120GB of video files, about 200+ of them.

Left it going overnight, still hammering away this morning.

After a while realised I couldn't sync any of my other files as they were queued behind them.

How do I cancel it?

In increasing desperation I have tried cancelling each individual file which worked for a bit but then stopped letting me do it, deleting the destination file/directory in the hope it would throw an error and crash, changing the original folder name, quitting the Google drive app - as soon as I restart it it carries on.

I am basically at a loss, google turns up nothing. How can I cancel the transfer?