[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

I apologize if this has been posted, I searched, couldn't find anything, but that never means anything.

We are having an issue with our Links & Download manager, but we don't know if it's related to another issue we are having so I went into admin and closed all the categories. I assumed this would shut everything down so that no one could download anything else.

When I go into the actual Links & Download Manager area on the site, on the top it shows:

Allowances: 20 files/1 used
[Closed]

But all the downloads are there to download.

Did I misunderstand what the close feature was, or is it just not working right?

Closed means closed for adding new entries. Everything that is already there remains there and accessible, and admins can also add new entries.

If you want to temporarily prevent downloads from the category, use Edit Category/User Group Permissions. You can set permissions which over-ride the master set. Be aware that these will also apply to any subcategories in the category concerned, unless you re-override them there.