Zed 0.190.6 long spinner hangs on MacOS 15.5 maybe due to homedir in Project Panel

[dlamblin]

Summary

I'm getting frequent long hangs of the UI on MacOS using the latest Zed 0.190.6

Description

Recently I had to work with a lot of dot files and some notes and repos in my home directory, so I decided to just add the homedir as the main item in the project panel. This is expanded by default. It did not seem to have any issues for several days of use, across some reopens too.
On Friday the update to 0.190.6 applied. Since then it (MacOS) will prompt at reopen as to whether I want to allow it (Zed) to work with files from other applications. I didn't understand why it'd ask, but I approved it. It would then spin for long periods of time.

I force quit once or twice as the UI was unresponsive, including moving the window on the screen or to another screen. On reopen it would repeat this dialog. I've since once denied it, and it no longer repeats the dialog. However the long waits persist.

I notice the wait (which can be 120-300 seconds) exists for searching across the project. It also occurs if I scroll to the bottom of the project panel.

Here's some of the things I did after the Friday update which may have contributed:

1. I opened from the CLI zed .brew/vault.rb INSTALL_RECEIPT.json sbom.spdx.json while in /opt/homebrew/Celler/vault/1.19.5; Of these files, after closing them, only INSTALL_RECIEPT.json was at the bottom of the Project Panel. FYI On reopening Zed. it would reopen this one file, along with ~/work/notes/aws_permissions.md.
   1. I would close this json file and leave the markdown file, and scroll down the panel to remove it from the project, but it would spin and hang then,
   2. and I'd twice force quit at this point, only to have it reopen that json file on the next relaunch.
   3. Eventually I decided not to force quit and wait, and about 5 minutes later I was able to remove the json file from the Project Panel.
   4. I quit Zed, I reopened Zed, it no longer opened that file. But scrolling the pane, which no longer includes it, still started a spinner.
2. I used command shfit p to open the theme selector.
   1. I didn't change theme, though I cycled them with the arrow keys.
   2. I clicked on "Install Themes" and searched with "Jetbrains" for Jetbrains New UI, which on zed-themes it said was included in the extensions list. It doesn't show up, so
   3. I tried installing the JetBrains New UI Icon Theme v2.1.0 which installed, but I don't see anything in ~/.config/zed/themes instead I found that I have a theme and icons in ~/Library/Application Support/Zed/

   ~ ls -d ~/Library/Application\ Support/Zed/extensions/installed/*
   /Users/dlamblin/Library/Application Support/Zed/extensions/installed/html
   /Users/dlamblin/Library/Application Support/Zed/extensions/installed/intellij-newui-theme
   /Users/dlamblin/Library/Application Support/Zed/extensions/installed/jetbrains-new-ui-icons

   4. I do not get the option to use this theme in the theme picker however.
3. I looked at the Console app for .ips files for Zed (from force quitting) there are none. Then I used command shift p to open log, which opens the last 1000 lines in /Users/dlamblin/Library/Logs/Zed/Zed.log wherein I see many lines like: ERROR [worktree] error scanning directory "/Users/dlamblin/Library/Containers/com.apple.messages.ReplyExtension/Data/Library/Application Support/AddressBook": Operation not permitted (os error 1).
   1. This prompted me to attempt to remove ~/Library from the project panel. I cannot. Yet I want all my other ~/ files to be available without having to add each separately. I suppose the command line can help with that, unsure, haven't tried it yet.
   2. FYI all the errors in Zed.log it seems relate to scanning or reading referrals into ~/Library/Containers/com.apple… with os error 1, except: ERROR [worktree] error reading file "/Users/dlamblin/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/globalStorage/state.vscdb-journal" on event: canonicalizing "/Users/dlamblin/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/globalStorage/state.vscdb-journal": No such file or directory (os error 2) and symlinks referring into the same dir give os error 2 like ERROR [worktree] error reading target of symlink "/Users/dlamblin/Library/Containers/com.apple.wallpaper.extension.monterey/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist": canonicalizing "/Users/dlamblin/Library/Containers/com.apple.wallpaper.extension.monterey/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist": No such file or directory (os error 2)
4. As mentioned at the top, I also searched my whole project to find something in my notes (after it stopped hanging as often, I thought because I'd removed the file in /opt/homebrew/… ) only to find that
   1. this took forever, I came back in an hour, and it had results,
   2. scrolling to the bottom of the results produced another 4+ minute hang. After it recovered, there were no additional results.

Steps to reproduce:

One way:

1. Open your homedir on Mac OS.
2. Search project files for short word like JIRA-
3. It will spin for a very long time, much longer than a full find with -exec grep, or recursive grep would spend on it.
4. Have this 'project' reopen at start up. IDK why that hangs after first interaction with the project panel.

Another way:

1. Open your homedir on Mac OS.
2. Open a file in /opt/homedir and scroll up and down in the project panel.
3. It will spin for a very long time too
4. Have this 'project' reopen at start up. IDK why that hangs after first interaction with the project panel.

Just found this way:

1. Open your homedir on Mac OS.
2. Go to open recent, type something that doesn't complete anything, press escape to cancel.
3. Click on the File menu. It will spin for a very long time ; though maybe just 90 seconds this time.

Expected Behavior:
open and close files and tabs without long pauses. A way to open the homedir with some exclusions.
Actual Behavior:
long pauses, no clear reason. Cannot exclude subdirs from the open dir of the Project Panel afaics.

UNRELATED, but an open question, does any part of vim mode call the vim binary with --clean? my .vimrc sets noundofile but files open with zed sometimes leave a *.un~ file behind. I am using vim mode. I suspect vim 9.1 is actually doing this, but… it shouldn't and in some cases it hasn't touched the files, but zed had them open once … so … ?

Zed Version and System Specs

Zed: v0.190.6 (Zed)
OS: macOS 15.5.0
Memory: 36 GiB
Architecture: aarch64

[dlamblin]

I suppose my work-around for making a project with everything but the unusable stuff (~/.Trash ~/Library) and the unhelpful stuff (~/.docker ~/.cursor ~/.cache …) is:

➜  ~ 2>/dev/null find $HOME -maxdepth 1 \! \( \
-name Library -or -name .Trash -or -name Applications -or -name Music -or -name Movies -or \
-name Pictures -or -name .cache -or -name .cursor -or -name .vscode -or -name .docker \) \( -type d -or \
\( -type f -exec grep -I -q . \{\} \; \) \) -depth 1 -print0 | sed "s|$HOME/||g"|sort -zr|xargs -0 echo

work Public openmetadata-docker old_AWS_to_delete now_env.sh nixos-config gpg_rsa_keybase fun flash filez Downloads Documents Desktop airflow .zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh .zshrc .zsh_sessions .zsh_history .zsh_aws_sso_aliases .zprofile.bak .zprofile .zcompdump-Daniel’s ✵ MBP-5.9 .writerside .virtualenvs .vimrc .viminfo .vim .tool-versions .terraform.versions .terraform.d .ssh .rustup .python_history .ollama .oh-my-zsh .local .links .lesshst .idlerc .gnupg .gk .gitkraken .gitconfig .cups .config .CFUserTextEncoding .bash_history .aws .asdf .android

➜  ~ 2>/dev/null find $HOME -maxdepth 1 \! \( \
-name Library -or -name .Trash -or -name Applications -or -name Music -or -name Movies -or \
-name Pictures -or -name .cache -or -name .cursor -or -name .vscode -or -name .docker \) \( -type d -or \
\( -type f -exec grep -I -q . \{\} \; \) \) -depth 1 -print0 | sed "s|$HOME/||g"|sort -zr|xargs -0 zed

If only the Project Panel would maintain the provided order, so as to name the project work and not .CFUserTextEncoding, which, if excluded would leave it named .android.

And is it just me or does Collapse All in the Project Panel do nothing? Ditto project panel: collapse all entries.

Oh and doing this confuses the heck out of the Git panel which seems to just be using the first lexically sorted directory with a .git dir in it. Even if the current open files are in a different repository. Upside: less logged errors, no spinner.

Can I recommend some kind of handling to automatically exclude files or directories that give an os error when scanned, on Mac OS at least?