# Anki 2.1.49 "Processing" Infinitely has to be killed

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**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 1, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-49-processing-infinitely-has-to-be-killed/17220 "2022-02-01T01:57:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![kanjieater](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/kanjieater/32/3004_2.png) [@kanjieater](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/kanjieater)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-49-processing-infinitely-has-to-be-killed/17220/1 "2022-02-01T01:57:43Z")

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I’ve tried working around this by disabling add-ons but I still can reproduce. Unfortunately it’s very inconsistent (though it happens to me multiple times in a day).

It seems that when the editor has a field that goes in and out of focus (maybe related to editor\_did\_unfocus\_field in editor.py?), it can trigger the processing progress dialog. Unfortunately I can’t exit out of it or do anything but kill Anki. I’ve seen it happen with the Japanese Add-on as well as the AJT Furigana add-on. I’m on windows 10 64-bit.

It seems similar to this but I’ve seen it happen with more than just the image field for certain: ["Processing" when adding images](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/processing-when-adding-images/2908)

I can reproduce it in 2.1.45 & 47 as well. Haven’t tried anything beyond that. I did not have an issue on Anki 2.1.35.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/e/eb317a151912d2ccbbe5acb9c3b0da7c69d0f816.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-49-processing-infinitely-has-to-be-killed/17220/2 "2022-02-01T02:48:41Z")

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The editor has changed a lot in 2.1.50, so it would be good if you could try the latest beta and see if you can still reproduce it there. [https://betas.ankiweb.net/](https://betas.ankiweb.net/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-49-processing-infinitely-has-to-be-killed/17220/3 "2023-05-01T04:33:31Z")

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