diff --git a/packages/nc-gui/components/dlg/AirtableImport.vue b/packages/nc-gui/components/dlg/AirtableImport.vue
index 1f0ccbe26c..1b762f351d 100644
--- a/packages/nc-gui/components/dlg/AirtableImport.vue
+++ b/packages/nc-gui/components/dlg/AirtableImport.vue
@@ -40,8 +40,12 @@ const progress = ref<Record<string, any>[]>([])
 
 const logRef = ref<typeof AntCard>()
 
+const enableAbort = ref(false)
+
 let socket: Socket | null
 
+let socketInterval: NodeJS.Timer
+
 const syncSource = ref({
   id: '',
   type: 'Airtable',
@@ -121,6 +125,7 @@ async function loadSyncSrc() {
     srcs[0].details = srcs[0].details || {}
     syncSource.value = migrateSync(srcs[0])
     syncSource.value.details.syncSourceUrlOrId = srcs[0].details.shareId
+    socket?.emit('subscribe', syncSource.value.id)
   } else {
     syncSource.value = {
       id: '',
@@ -146,7 +151,6 @@ async function loadSyncSrc() {
 }
 
 async function sync() {
-  step.value = 2
   try {
     await $fetch(`/api/v1/db/meta/syncs/${syncSource.value.id}/trigger`, {
       baseURL,
@@ -156,11 +160,36 @@ async function sync() {
         id: socket?.id,
       },
     })
+    socket?.emit('subscribe', syncSource.value.id)
   } catch (e: any) {
     message.error(await extractSdkResponseErrorMsg(e))
   }
 }
 
+async function abort() {
+  Modal.confirm({
+    title: 'Are you sure you want to abort this job?',
+    type: 'warn',
+    content:
+      "This is a highly experimental feature and only marks job as not started, please don't abort the job unless you are sure job is stuck.",
+    onOk: async () => {
+      try {
+        await $fetch(`/api/v1/db/meta/syncs/${syncSource.value.id}/abort`, {
+          baseURL,
+          method: 'POST',
+          headers: { 'xc-auth': $state.token.value as string },
+          params: {
+            id: socket?.id,
+          },
+        })
+        step.value = 1
+      } catch (e: any) {
+        message.error(await extractSdkResponseErrorMsg(e))
+      }
+    },
+  })
+}
+
 function migrateSync(src: any) {
   if (!src.details?.options) {
     src.details.options = {
@@ -193,16 +222,6 @@ onMounted(async () => {
     extraHeaders: { 'xc-auth': $state.token.value as string },
   })
 
-  socket.on('connect_error', () => {
-    socket?.disconnect()
-    socket = null
-  })
-
-  // connect event does not provide data
-  socket.on('connect', () => {
-    console.log('socket connected')
-  })
-
   socket.on('progress', async (d: Record<string, any>) => {
     progress.value.push(d)
 
@@ -219,13 +238,46 @@ onMounted(async () => {
     }
   })
 
+  socket.on('disconnect', () => {
+    console.log('socket disconnected')
+    const rcInterval = setInterval(() => {
+      if (socket?.connected) {
+        clearInterval(rcInterval)
+        socket?.emit('subscribe', syncSource.value.id)
+      } else {
+        socket?.connect()
+      }
+    }, 2000)
+  })
+
+  socket.on('job', () => {
+    step.value = 2
+  })
+
+  // connect event does not provide data
+  socket.on('connect', () => {
+    console.log('socket connected')
+    if (syncSource.value.id) {
+      socket?.emit('subscribe', syncSource.value.id)
+    }
+  })
+
+  socket?.io.on('reconnect', () => {
+    console.log('socket reconnected')
+    if (syncSource.value.id) {
+      socket?.emit('subscribe', syncSource.value.id)
+    }
+  })
+
   await loadSyncSrc()
 })
 
 onBeforeUnmount(() => {
   if (socket) {
+    socket.removeAllListeners()
     socket.disconnect()
   }
+  clearInterval(socketInterval)
 })
 </script>
 
@@ -239,7 +291,7 @@ onBeforeUnmount(() => {
   >
     <div class="px-5">
       <!--      Quick Import -->
-      <div class="mt-5 prose-xl font-weight-bold">{{ $t('title.quickImport') }} - AIRTABLE</div>
+      <div class="mt-5 prose-xl font-weight-bold" @dblclick="enableAbort = true">{{ $t('title.quickImport') }} - AIRTABLE</div>
 
       <div v-if="step === 1">
         <div class="mb-4">
@@ -381,6 +433,7 @@ onBeforeUnmount(() => {
           <a-button v-if="showGoToDashboardButton" class="mt-4" size="large" @click="dialogShow = false">
             {{ $t('labels.goToDashboard') }}
           </a-button>
+          <a-button v-else-if="enableAbort" class="mt-4" size="large" danger @click="abort()">ABORT</a-button>
         </div>
       </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/index.ts b/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/index.ts
index ee1d8ab7fc..28ee746356 100644
--- a/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/index.ts
+++ b/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/index.ts
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ import importApis from './sync/importApis';
 import syncSourceApis from './sync/syncSourceApis';
 
 const clients: { [id: string]: Socket } = {};
+const jobs: { [id: string]: { last_message: any } } = {};
 
 export default function (router: Router, server) {
   initStrategies(router);
@@ -138,9 +139,16 @@ export default function (router: Router, server) {
     socket.on('event', (args) => {
       Tele.event({ ...args, id });
     });
+    socket.on('subscribe', (room) => {
+      if (room in jobs) {
+        socket.join(room)
+        socket.emit('job')
+        socket.emit('progress', jobs[room].last_message)
+      }
+    })
   });
 
-  importApis(router, clients);
+  importApis(router, io, jobs);
 }
 
 function getHash(str) {
diff --git a/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/sync/helpers/readAndProcessData.ts b/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/sync/helpers/readAndProcessData.ts
index 5fe7f76b5d..ad004205d1 100644
--- a/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/sync/helpers/readAndProcessData.ts
+++ b/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/sync/helpers/readAndProcessData.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import EntityMap from './EntityMap';
 
 const BULK_DATA_BATCH_SIZE = 500;
 const ASSOC_BULK_DATA_BATCH_SIZE = 1000;
-const BULK_PARALLEL_PROCESS = 100;
+const BULK_PARALLEL_PROCESS = 5;
 
 async function readAllData({
   table,
diff --git a/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/sync/importApis.ts b/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/sync/importApis.ts
index 15ae1b5e63..fd73736fa4 100644
--- a/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/sync/importApis.ts
+++ b/packages/nocodb/src/lib/meta/api/sync/importApis.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import { Request, Router } from 'express';
 // import { Queue } from 'bullmq';
 // import axios from 'axios';
-import catchError from '../../helpers/catchError';
-import { Socket } from 'socket.io';
+import catchError, { NcError } from '../../helpers/catchError';
+import { Server } from 'socket.io';
 import NocoJobs from '../../../jobs/NocoJobs';
 import job, { AirtableSyncConfig } from './helpers/job';
 import SyncSource from '../../../models/SyncSource';
@@ -17,17 +17,25 @@ enum SyncStatus {
   FAILED = 'FAILED',
 }
 
-export default (router: Router, clients: { [id: string]: Socket }) => {
+export default (router: Router, sv: Server, jobs: { [id: string]: { last_message: any } }) => {
   // add importer job handler and progress notification job handler
   NocoJobs.jobsMgr.addJobWorker(AIRTABLE_IMPORT_JOB, job);
   NocoJobs.jobsMgr.addJobWorker(
     AIRTABLE_PROGRESS_JOB,
     ({ payload, progress }) => {
-      clients?.[payload?.id]?.emit('progress', {
+      sv.to(payload?.id).emit('progress', {
         msg: progress?.msg,
         level: progress?.level,
         status: progress?.status,
       });
+
+      if (payload?.id in jobs) {
+        jobs[payload?.id].last_message = {
+          msg: progress?.msg,
+          level: progress?.level,
+          status: progress?.status,
+        };
+      }
     }
   );
 
@@ -49,6 +57,7 @@ export default (router: Router, clients: { [id: string]: Socket }) => {
         status: SyncStatus.COMPLETED,
       },
     });
+    delete jobs[payload?.id];
   });
   NocoJobs.jobsMgr.addFailureCbk(AIRTABLE_IMPORT_JOB, (payload, error: any) => {
     NocoJobs.jobsMgr.add(AIRTABLE_PROGRESS_JOB, {
@@ -58,6 +67,7 @@ export default (router: Router, clients: { [id: string]: Socket }) => {
         status: SyncStatus.FAILED,
       },
     });
+    delete jobs[payload?.id];
   });
 
   router.post(
@@ -73,6 +83,10 @@ export default (router: Router, clients: { [id: string]: Socket }) => {
   router.post(
     '/api/v1/db/meta/syncs/:syncId/trigger',
     catchError(async (req: Request, res) => {
+      if (req.params.syncId in jobs) {
+        NcError.badRequest('Sync already in progress');
+      }
+
       const syncSource = await SyncSource.get(req.params.syncId);
 
       const user = await syncSource.getUser();
@@ -90,12 +104,26 @@ export default (router: Router, clients: { [id: string]: Socket }) => {
       }
 
       NocoJobs.jobsMgr.add<AirtableSyncConfig>(AIRTABLE_IMPORT_JOB, {
-        id: req.query.id,
+        id: req.params.syncId,
         ...(syncSource?.details || {}),
         projectId: syncSource.project_id,
         authToken: token,
         baseURL,
       });
+      jobs[req.params.syncId] = {
+        last_message: {
+          msg: 'Sync started'
+        }
+      };
+      res.json({});
+    })
+  );
+  router.post(
+    '/api/v1/db/meta/syncs/:syncId/abort',
+    catchError(async (req: Request, res) => {
+      if (req.params.syncId in jobs) {
+        delete jobs[req.params.syncId];
+      }
       res.json({});
     })
   );
diff --git a/packages/nocodb/src/lib/v1-legacy/plugins/adapters/storage/Local.ts b/packages/nocodb/src/lib/v1-legacy/plugins/adapters/storage/Local.ts
index edcc20b385..48b695b878 100644
--- a/packages/nocodb/src/lib/v1-legacy/plugins/adapters/storage/Local.ts
+++ b/packages/nocodb/src/lib/v1-legacy/plugins/adapters/storage/Local.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import mkdirp from 'mkdirp';
 import { IStorageAdapterV2, XcFile } from 'nc-plugin';
 import NcConfigFactory from '../../../../utils/NcConfigFactory';
 
-import request from 'request';
+import axios from 'axios';
 
 export default class Local implements IStorageAdapterV2 {
   constructor() {}
@@ -27,37 +27,36 @@ export default class Local implements IStorageAdapterV2 {
   async fileCreateByUrl(key: string, url: string): Promise<any> {
     const destPath = path.join(NcConfigFactory.getToolDir(), ...key.split('/'));
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-      mkdirp.sync(path.dirname(destPath));
-      const file = fs.createWriteStream(destPath);
-      const sendReq = request.get(url);
-
-      // verify response code
-      sendReq.on('response', (response) => {
-        if (response.statusCode !== 200) {
-          return reject('Response status was ' + response.statusCode);
-        }
-
-        sendReq.pipe(file);
-      });
-
-      // close() is async, call cb after close completes
-      file.on('finish', () => {
-        file.close((err) => {
-          if (err) {
-            return reject(err);
-          }
-          resolve(null);
+      axios.get((url), { responseType: "stream", headers: {
+        "accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9",
+        "accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
+        "cache-control": "no-cache",
+        "pragma": "no-cache",
+        "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+        "origin": "https://www.airtable.com/",
+      } })
+      .then(response => {
+        mkdirp.sync(path.dirname(destPath));
+        const file = fs.createWriteStream(destPath);
+        // close() is async, call cb after close completes
+        file.on('finish', () => {
+          file.close((err) => {
+            if (err) {
+              return reject(err);
+            }
+            resolve(null);
+          });
         });
-      });
 
-      // check for request errors
-      sendReq.on('error', (err) => {
-        fs.unlink(destPath, () => reject(err.message)); // delete the (partial) file and then return the error
-      });
+        file.on('error', (err) => {
+          // Handle errors
+          fs.unlink(destPath, () => reject(err.message)); // delete the (partial) file and then return the error
+        });
 
-      file.on('error', (err) => {
-        // Handle errors
-        fs.unlink(destPath, () => reject(err.message)); // delete the (partial) file and then return the error
+        response.data.pipe(file);
+      })
+      .catch((err) => {
+        reject(err.message)
       });
     });
   }