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This is a niche problem, but Studio crashes when I browse for an HDR image for IBL. It has to do with the drawing of thumbnails as you browse; if you can race against the clock, it will usually let you choose an HDR file just fine. ~10 seconds in, it crashes.

Uninstalled SageThumbs, problem went away.

I don't see a way, technically, for Studio to cause this. When you browse for a file, the browser dialog is just an instance of Windows Explorer, shown by Windows on behalf of the code that called it. If you uninstall an Explorer plugin, and it erases the issue, I'd tend to look for a corrupt file somewhere, which would previously have been being read by that plugin. For what it's worth, I looked up SageThumbs and installed it, and I have not yet been able to produce any crashes.

Yeah I see what you mean, Studio is just telling Windows to do its thing, so I really don't see the connection either. But I don't get any crashes while looking around in regular Explorer, so I'm not sure what to think.

Either way, it's pretty non-critical

Well, I'll leave it installed, anyway, and see if I run into any crashes.

I installed Sagethumbs on two machines a couple of weeks ago. No crashes for me either.