One thing you should never do in reporting a bug is conflate two events that might not have anything to do with each other. #
I have to work to figure out that you're doing this. Esp when a lot of unnecessary info is mixed in. #
Because theories like this from people who aren't familiar with how the code works behind the scenes (no reason you should be) almost never get this right.#
You have to boil it down to the minimal number of steps-to-reproduce. Those are facts that are incontrovertible. That one problem caused another? Probably not. In general. #
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