# How to find out what Anki is "Processing..."?

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**Created:** [April 2, 2024, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-find-out-what-anki-is-processing/43118 "2024-04-02T07:16:34Z")\
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It will pop up any time a long-running operation takes longer than about 600ms to complete. This could be because some other long-running action was already running, or because your machine’s disk is temporarily slow (because of other background activity)

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