Intense network pulls that freezes the entire program for minutes, each for every action I perform.

[johnchen40904]

I'm using the latest version for Windows, 2.4.1.

It freezes, sometimes turns pale white, and the (Not Responding) sentence can be spotted on the taskbar.

Via the Task Manager, I saw that it is doing large network pulls that hogs up my entire internet bandwidth every time it freezes. It was addressed to “Library - Kiwix” and not “aria2c.exe”, so that might be some clue.

I initially thought this was due to me setting the download and monitor directory to an SMB network location, but the problem persists after I set both of the location to my computer's internal SSD.

It truly pulls stuff and freezes for minutes per every action I do:
firing up the program, clicking online/local files, selecting a category, for each letter I type into the search bar, opening the Settings tab, even clicking the “Browse” button for selecting a new directory freezes too for whatever reason.

I think we truly need a logging system in it. I don't even have a clue about what it's trying to pull over the network every time.

[kelson42]

It´s the library catalog probably, this needs to be confirmed. This should not block the UI. Can not be actually. We face here I suspect a bit of a mystery.

@johnchen40904 Are you sure you don't have one of the books of your library still located on a network drive? What happens if you disconnect your computer from the network, do you still suffer of the freeze?