I just uncovered a bug in the latest release of BBEdit (9.6.2) that
has stopped my development cold. Unfortunately, I'm trying to get an
application completed so I can fly from Denver to New Orleans in the
morning for a major website install .

I was doing doing a fairly simple global text search on a very large
directory that contains several thousand files. I do this quite
frequently and typically without complication. Normally I would do the
find/replace, saving the changes immediately, with the application
only advising me of the the changes that were made. In this particular
instance, my search was not unique enough that I could be absolutely
certain I would only change what I anticipated changing. So I modified
my parameters to have BBEdit make the changes, but leave the files
open and unsaved. I know my search was at least unique enough that I
should only end up with a couple dozen files open at most.

Unfortunately, I did not get the results I expected. BBEdit began to
open every single file in the master directory (several thousand),
marking the pages as changed and leaving them open. There is
absolutely no reason that any of these files should have been changed
with the submitted query... but they WERE.

After about 30 minutes (at which time new files were being loaded
rather slowly due to memory constraints), I finally force-quit BBEdit.
But, to my dismay (and as I anticipated), once BBEdit was relaunched,
it went into perpetual "beach-ball mode", while preparing to reload
the thousands of files that were loaded previously.

Does anybody have a clue how to kill this bug from Hell? I tried
calling the support number but it was already too late to catch them
today. If I have to wait until tomorrow to get a reply, I'll be
required to cancel my flight.

Thanks for any help

Jack

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