Ok … I lied. It’s doing it again. I truly need help with this. Let me give you as much info as possible. I’m on windows 7-64, but have tested on Windows 10 as well. Since Matt has now seen the post, I hope we can track this down.
1. Behaviour description: In my audio library (which contains over 70,000 tracks), typing in a search triggers a program freeze after typing the first letter. The remaining letters end up displaying after a lengthy delay. Clicking on the screen during the delay can cause a crash.
2. The behaviour is present in version 21.0.7 and 21.0.6, but not in earlier versions.
3. The behaviour occurs only in views based on “Categories”. All other views search fine.
4. The delay can be at times short (5 seconds) but is generally long (20 seconds – up to 34 seconds once)
5. Updating a version can sometimes make the program run fine, but repeated searches or adding an item to the library activates the behaviour. Once that behaviour is established, it then remains consistent.
6. I have tried with my podcasts removed as Arindelle suggested, and also corrected the setting that invoked a now non-existent drive. This did nothing to improve the situation.
7. I have rebuilt test libraries from scratch, but they eventually display the behaviour once the library gets large. However, the number of files in the library which is required to kick-start the problem varies from test to test.
8. The backward process is the same. Removing files from the library eventually takes care of the problem, but again, no particular library size can get rid of it. On one test, it took about 35,000 files for the problem to disappear, but on another test I had to erase 90% of my audio items in the library in order to lick it.
9. I have come up empty handed in every attempt to zero-in on a specific file or group of files which could trigger this behaviour.
10. I had my son load my library file on his very fast windows 10 machine. And although the first few searches went fine, it eventually started to freeze also.
I will gladly provide anyone with my library, bearing in mind that it can take a few searches before this odd behaviour appears.