How to publish without notifying users and watchers

Question

Hello,

As a Confluence administrator, I would like to download documents without notifying our users and watchers.

It looks like that anything I download generates an automated email ([Confluence] Property Acquisition > Downloads..) sent to all my users (+250). I would like to keep it silent. What is the manipulation?I d click on 'publish without notifying watchers' but it doesn't seem to work. The Downloads page seems to be the issue.

Thanks,

Xavier

Mohamed K · Answer

Confluence sends notifications to page watchers when you publish the page only when a new change is introduced, like modifying the content or attaching a file.

perhaps the content is modified when you edit the page!  As Wade said more details would help us identify where the problem might be.

Wade Tracy _Boise_ ID_ · Answer

I'm not entirely sure I follow you...is 'Downloads' a page you created?  Where are you downloading documents from?  Are these page attachments?  I'm assuming since you are seeing the 'publish without notifying watchers' that you are editing a page but I'm not sure why you would need to edit a page to download something.  Additional details would be great.