Bug: Opening tagged folders (from the sidebar) sometimes cause app to freeze

Question

Bug: Opening tagged folders (from the sidebar) sometimes cause app to freeze

Opened this issue 21 days ago · 6 comments

Description

hi, so, I'd like to report this, a problem that's been happening to me for a while now
is that it takes a while to open the tages folders, which are on the right-hand side, and sometimes, it takes so long that Files almost crashes

Steps To Reproduce

Just open the Tags folders; it will take a while to open them

Files Version

4.0.11.0

Windows Version

10.0.26200.6899

User ID

No response

Log File

debug.log

Answer 1 · 2025-10-19T00:43:10.000Z

Do you have a lot of tagged items?

Answer 2 · 2025-10-19T00:44:23.000Z

Do you have a lot of tagged items?

no

Answer 3 · 2025-10-19T01:22:18.000Z

Same behavior here with a single file tagged.

Answer 4 · 2025-10-19T01:23:34.000Z

Does this also happen when you do a regular search?

Answer 5 · 2025-10-19T10:30:39.000Z

Does this also happen when you do a regular search?

no

Answer 6 · 2025-10-30T20:45:14.000Z

Thank you for the response. Do you have Enhanced Search Indexing enabled in Windows?

In any event, I believe this will be resolved together with #15272. We can keep this issue open, but in the meantime, I recommend subscribing to #15272 to be notified of any updates.