# Beets 1.4.x hang while importing

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-1-4-x-hang-while-importing/124>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 24, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-1-4-x-hang-while-importing/124 "2017-06-24T15:20:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![gannas](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/gannas/32/46_2.png) [@gannas](https://discourse.beets.io/u/gannas)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-1-4-x-hang-while-importing/124/1 "2017-06-24T15:20:05Z")

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This software is awesome and has saved so much of my time. Thank you, developers!

I believe I installed beets back at version 1.3.19 on Fedora 24 with Python 2.7. My library DB is ‘musiclibrary.blb’. Some time back near the end of May I upgraded to 1.4.3 (currently running 1.4.5) but ever since going to 1.4.x I cannot run beets, it hangs after loading plugins (none configured) right when it should be loading the DB. I see that if I remove the config file, beets creates a ‘library.db’. Also, if I use this new empty DB, beets runs fine.

Did the DB format change at some point? I’ve tried restoring backups and same behavior…

-gannas

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-1-4-x-hang-while-importing/124/2 "2017-06-24T18:43:49Z")

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That’s certainly odd! There have not been any format changes or anything. If it’s something that’s happening reliably, can you please file a bug report on GitHub with full details?