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TextEdit freezing
I like to do most of my text processing in TextEdit, but since updating to Big Sur, it has become much more unstable, freezing unexpectedly (spinning beach ball of death). Some days it may happen only once, but some days (like today) it happens every half hour or so. It feels like Windows in the 1990s, when you were always working under a sword of Damocles, saving every few seconds and just waiting for the drop... I don't think there's a single thing I'm doing when it happens, but I've often noticed it happening right when I accidentally zoom the TextEdit window by pinching (something I never mean to do in TextEdit and which is mostly annoying, btw). But it also happens when I'm doing nothing but typing on a keyboard (also external). I also do tend to use an external display connected by HDMI, which I suspect even more. Running 11.2.3 on MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020. I saved a recent crash report, if it helps. Any ideas? Thank you in advance.
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