The application is frozen, where are the variable files located?

[JMichaelTX]

@sursur

A late thanks, but your suggestions did help me to fix the freeze.

@JMichaelTX

I doubt that a large RegEx is causing KM to freeze.

I beg to differ! Heh. Actually, I'm sure you know much more about this stuff than I do, but something is causing KM to often go wonky on me.

I'm responding to this again after I read the post by Peter:

@peternlewis

It is certainly possible, you can create pathological regex that have exponential time requirements.

First, @sursur, let me suggest that you read this blog, and take it to heart that it is certainly possible to contrive a "pathological regex".

However, it is very interesting to me that the "pathological regex" that was posted:
(x+x+)+y

does NOT actually cause a problem in either RegEx101.com or Keyboard Maestro 8.2.1 (8.2.1) on macOS 10.12.6:

RegEx101.com

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KM 8.2.1

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@sursur

What I've found is that it's not exactly a large regex but a large variable.

If I understand your workflow correctly, you are creating these very large KM Variables from the Clipboard, which also would be very large. I have observed that a very large Clipboard can cause KM to slow down.

So, I'd suggest that you delete ALL KM Variables and ALL Clipboard History entires that you don't need. I have tools that will do that for you:

1. MACRO: Get List of KM Variables and Size @KM @Tool

2. MACRO: Clean-up DELETE KM Variables @KM8

3. Clear Delete Clipboard History @KM @Tool

This does not include macro file, it is just an image, since it is so simple.

Warning!
This macro Makes Major UnRecoverable Changes to Your KM App

• It DELETES Your Entire KM Clipboard History
• You may want to backup your KM Clipboard History Plist at
  ~/Library/Application Support/Keyboard Maestro/Keyboard Maestro Clipboard History.plist

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