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Pro Tools Reference Guide356
To resume a task:
 Drag a task from the Paused Tasks pane to the
Active Tasks pane. The task returns to its previ-
ous position in the queue.
To resume all paused tasks:
 Select Resume All from the Task window menu.
All tasks in the Paused Tasks pane (except
failed tasks) are moved to the Active Tasks
pane.
To cancel a task:
1 Highlight any task in either pane of the Task
window.
2 Press Delete to remove it from the Task win-
dow.
To cancel all tasks:
1 Select any single task in either pane.
2 Press Command+A (Mac) Control+A (Win-
dows) to select all the tasks in that pane.
3 Press Delete.
This command cannot be undone.
About Canceling Tasks
Some tasks involve one or more sub-tasks. Delet-
ing a task cannot undo sub-tasks already com-
pleted. For example, if importing and converting
multiple files appears as a single task, deleting that
task before it is completed stops the import and
conversion process, but files already converted and
imported remain on disk. If you want to cancel a
task involving multiple sub-tasks, you can instead
let the process complete and then use
Undo to com-
pletely undo all sub-tasks, as available.
Closing Sessions with Pending
Tasks
If you close a session or quit Pro Tools while tasks
are still pending (either in the Active or Paused
Tasks panes of the Task window) Pro Tools asks if
you want to cancel, or complete the pending tasks.
You can choose to open the Task window and wait
for pending tasks to complete, cancel the pending
tasks, or quit. If you quit, some tasks are canceled.
Tasks that involve file copies are remembered and
restarted when you relaunch Pro Tools.
About Failed Tasks
The Paused Tasks pane shows any tasks that could
not be completed. The reason for the failure is
shown in the Status column.
Failed Tasks cannot be resumed, and must be de-
leted manually from the Paused Tasks pane.
If
Automatically Find and Relink was unable to find
all files in a session, a failed task is placed in the
Paused Tasks pane of the Task window. It remains
there unless you manually remove it from the Task
window (even if you have since found the files
through a subsequent search and relink task).
Task Prioritization
A task that is in progress may be interrupted by a
task of higher priority. When this happens, the par-
tially completed task is halted and rescheduled
later in the queue, and shown with a progress bar in
the Active Tasks pane. When the higher priority
task is finished the first incomplete task in the
queue resumes.