Let's say you've made a change to a watch in Xray, such as turning off a block downloads policy. However, despite this, nothing is being updated and artifacts continue to be blocked. What's going on? This behavior is due to the way that Xray scans and tracks artifacts in Artifactory. This can be corrected by applying updated policies and by rescanning the blocked artifacts.
If your build is blocked or you otherwise need to unblock artifacts quickly, tick the Allow downloads of blocked artifacts box under Artifactory's Admin > JFrog Xray menu in 6.X, and the Admin > JFrog Xray > General Settings menu in 7.X: