Pause it from the tray
Sometimes you want Relic to look away for a while: you are sharing your screen, someone is using your machine, or you are working through a stack of things you would rather not have a record of. Pausing stops capture everywhere at once, for as long as you say.
- Open the tray menu
Right-click the Relic icon in your tray. On a Mac, click the icon in the menu bar.
- Point at Pause capture
Hover Pause capture and its submenu opens.
- Pick how long
For 10 minutes and For 1 hour start a clock and end on their own. Until I resume it waits for you.
Nothing else changes. You can still open the window, search, copy items back out, and sync. The only thing that stops is new captures arriving.
While capture is paused
A pause that you forget about is a pause that quietly eats a week of copies, so Relic puts a strip at the top of the window every time you open it. A timed pause counts down in it:
The tray menu changes too. While a pause is on, Pause capture and its submenu are replaced by a single Resume capture.
Starting again
- Press Resume on the banner.
- Or pick Resume capture from the tray menu.
- Or wait, if you chose one of the timed pauses. They end by themselves.
Anything you copied while capture was paused is gone as far as Relic is concerned. It was never written down, so there is nothing to recover and nothing to delete. Copy it again after you resume if you want it kept.
To leave capture on but exclude one program, use the blocklist. To stop Relic entirely, Quit Relic at the bottom of the same menu closes it until you open it again. See the tray menu.