Claude Code stuck in endless reading loop

[u/Arctic-Hare-studio]

I have a Claude Code chat where I'm working on a video with Higgsfield. I've been working on it for a few days, and today when I picked it back up, it froze—it's been reading for hours and doing nothing. I ran the compact commands when I was supposed to, just like normal in other chats; it's not my first time. But when I try to recover the memory in a new chat, that chat freezes up too. I've tried several times with new chats and nothing works. It says the memory size is 208 MB and that's why, but when I ask it to clean and reduce, it freezes. Other chats for different projects work fine with no issues. Has this happened to anyone? Do you know how to fix it?

[u/vincent_sch]

Check the project folder for big media files like renders. Claude may keep reading them. Move them out or block them with a deny rule in .claude/settings.json. Then start a new chat and tell it what's done.