Obsidian crashes on 3 words search even in restricted mode

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When entering a 3 words search, e.g. “create a folder” on the last letters of the word “folder” Obsidian already freezes a bit. Then, after Obsidian shows the results, when deleting the search expression Obsidian crashes.

Please see the video: Dropbox - 240205_Obsidian_freeze_on_search_restricted_mode.mov - Simplify your life

After all the interface disappears the window can still be closed.

The bug is stable, crashes every time in a similar fashion. Tried restarting Obsidian.
With Community plugins enabled also crashes, searching with Omnisearch crashes as well.

I am on MacBook M1 Pro, OS X 12.3. Vault is new and tiny, on a local drive, non-encrypted, 218 files, size 48MB.

Here is debug info:

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.5.3
Installer version: v1.4.16
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 21.4.0: Mon Feb 21 20:35:58 PST 2022; root:xnu-8020.101.4~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 21.4.0
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: light
Community theme: Sandstorm v1.1.0
Snippets enabled: 1
Restricted mode: on

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can you zip this vault, upload it somewhere, and dm me the link to it?

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Ok, how can I dm?

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I uploaded. How can I dm, please?

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Click or tap WhiteNoise’s profile picture, then the Message button.

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Well, I should have mentioned that I did try this obvious way - no Message button there for me (please see the screenshot): Dropbox - Screen Shot 2024-02-06 at 13.26.15.png - Simplify your life
Maybe, because I have just joined

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Ah, good thinking — that was it. I’ve raised your trust level so you should be able to message now.

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The problem is created by a huge markdown file (5mb) and your 3 words one of them being “a” getting 200k hits in that file.

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Thank you very much for the explanation!

How can I avoid such problems in future?
No huge markdown files - ok. What else to avoid?

So, if I save many MBs of texts (books or program files) then typing “a” in an unquoted search phrase may crash the system?

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we will try to handle better these cases.

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Does saving big texts as attachments solve the problem? Text attachments are not searched?

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I’d say don’t include “a” in unquoted searches. Even if it didn’t crash, it would muddy your results. Your example would work better as either create folder or "create a folder" (depending on what you’re going for).

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