Aspect not responding to Close button during tutorial - System hang when force-closed

Aspect made my entire system hang after I force-closed it from task manager. The system froze for a good 30 seconds, then the mouse moved once. After 60 seconds the app closed and the system started responding again.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. I created a new library on an external drive.

  2. I added a folder to that library containing a bunch of photos (100,000+ photos, mostly RAW, a few hundred JPEG).

  3. The image browser worked great. The memory footprint was around 2.5 GB. (Great job, guys).

  4. I clicked fullscreen on one image, and it made the mouse cursor disappear (already saw someone else reported this bug)

  5. I clicked “show the tutorial” in the Help section.

  6. I couldn’t dismiss the tutorial because I couldn’t see the cursor.

  7. I tried closing the app with Alt+F4, and right-click on icon to close, and it failed to respond to any of that, so I went to Task Manager and force-closed the app, which froze the computer up. This is an 8-core/ 16 thread processor that froze. That takes some deep problem to cause that.

I reported this using the in-app crash reporting tool as well.