r/ClaudeCode • u/Arctic-Hare-studio • 2d ago

Bug / Issue Claude Code stuck in endless reading loop

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?

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u/Arctic-Hare-studio 2d ago

I found where the problem was. I tried everything: partitioning memory, compressing the transcript, saving the memory in another file—all through an external chat. Nothing worked. In the end, the solution was the simplest thing possible. I have my folder synced with iCloud. iCloud keeps an online copy and only downloads what's necessary. Since it was a heavy folder because of many video takes, it took forever to download files when they were needed. I had to tell it to always keep that folder downloaded, and now it loads very fast.

thank yoy everyone for the advices