Out of the Blue PHPStorm Freezes at "Loading Project" for 2 mins
So i've been using PHPStorm for a few years. It typically takes 5-10secs to load my existing project up. For the past few days it now takes almost exactly 2 mins to launch my project. Specifically, it seems to get stuck when it gets to the "Loading Project" part (see screenshot below). After a few mins it resumes. Huh. Any idea? Using Windows 10. My project has been excluded from Windows Defender.

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Without the logs, it's really hard to tell what's going on.
Please try these two:
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