# Cancelling Publish locks up **URL:** \ **Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\ **Created:** [June 22, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cancelling-publish-locks-up/8078 "2016-06-22T20:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![estrayer](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/estrayer/32/4120_2.png) [@estrayer](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/estrayer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cancelling-publish-locks-up/8078/1 "2016-06-22T20:19:54Z")
I have tried to cancel publishing a few times lately (due to unnecessary large files slowing things down). But hitting “cancel” merely locks the program up. I _might_ need to wait longer but that defeats the purpose. Thanks for any suggestions. es ---
**Author:** ![Rovertek](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/rovertek/32/223_2.png) [@Rovertek](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Rovertek)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cancelling-publish-locks-up/8078/2 "2016-06-22T23:02:38Z")
I had a similar experience. When I click “Cancel”, the warning says “cancelling” or “skipping” or something to that effect, but the publishing continues all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![keithnteri](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/keithnteri/32/263_2.png) [@keithnteri](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/keithnteri)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cancelling-publish-locks-up/8078/3 "2016-07-14T03:27:21Z")
This is something that is definitely broken in RW7. If I tell RW to cancel publishing it should immediately stop the connection. Right now there is no way to stop the publishing and no way to save changes until the publishing has finished. ---
**Author:** ![estrayer](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/estrayer/32/4120_2.png) [@estrayer](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/estrayer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cancelling-publish-locks-up/8078/4 "2016-07-14T04:43:16Z")
Ahhhh. Not me eh? Bummer. So do these guys know this now of do we have to make it official with a ticket or something. ---
**Author:** ![TheBeeSociety](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c6cbf5/32.png) [@TheBeeSociety](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/TheBeeSociety)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cancelling-publish-locks-up/8078/5 "2016-07-22T19:50:15Z")
I’d been experiencing terrible trouble with RW7 failing to publish, locking up on publish, in the previous version. Then the upgrade to 7.0.4 came out, and it seemed for a day or so that the problem was fixed. Sadly, I’m having difficulties again, today having to force quit after a stalled publish, and having to restart it in order to successfully publish. I don’t know what happened, but I will mention that, between the time I wasn’t having troubles and today, Mac updated their OS. Again. I’m wondering if something in the OS is causing troubles in RW at this point? Anyone else experiencing this? ---
**Author:** ![keithnteri](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/keithnteri/32/263_2.png) [@keithnteri](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/keithnteri)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cancelling-publish-locks-up/8078/6 "2016-08-16T18:23:15Z")
Is anyone from RW even looking at this thread? It would seem that this is something that they would like to get fixed fairly quickly or at least comment on what is going on with the issue. I have to force quit RW when publishing gets stuck as the cancel publishing or cancel backup do not work. ---
**Author:** ![jabostick](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jabostick/32/1760_2.png) [@jabostick](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jabostick)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cancelling-publish-locks-up/8078/7 "2016-08-16T18:42:36Z")
I don’t know if it among the fixes with RW 7.1 Have you submitted a ticket to Realmac? ---
**Author:** ![estrayer](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/estrayer/32/4120_2.png) [@estrayer](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/estrayer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cancelling-publish-locks-up/8078/8 "2016-08-17T00:17:29Z")
I haven’t been working on RW for almost a month, but I recall this happening a lot about a year or so ago. Huh. Bummer news. Thanks, es There is much pleasure to be gained by useless knowledge. ~Bertrand Russell Eric Strayer sociology instructor at large [ericsoc@pinxit.com](mailto:ericsoc@pinxit.com) [http://pinxit.com/](http://pinxit.com/) > **[ericsoc](https://estrayer.wordpress.com/)** ![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/2X/e/eaa310200e6160232bcff880d291135e24188923.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![TheBeeSociety](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c6cbf5/32.png) [@TheBeeSociety](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/TheBeeSociety)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cancelling-publish-locks-up/8078/9 "2016-09-16T00:32:02Z")
I’ve been having a consistent problem with publishing lock-ups, failing to publish (work fine one minute, not ten minutes later). I’ve yet to see a solution to the problem. I have to continually quit out of RW and fire it up again in order to get past the problem. That usually works for about 2-3 publishings, then I have to start over again. I NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM WITH RW 6! It started with 7.0, and the .01 update didn’t fix the issue. I hope whomever is reading this (if anyone, hopefully from the company)…can you please help and/or FIX THIS? Thanks! (I rely on RW for daily updates, frequently multiple updates/day, so this is more than a nuisance. It’s costing me time.)