element-hq / element-hq/element-web

crash when saving or sending a file from disk

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A-File-Download A-File-Upload O-Uncommon S-Minor T-Defect Z-Rageshake
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Description

### Steps to reproduce

1. receive a file
2. click download
3. wait for the dialogue to select the download directory to pop up
4. crash instead

1. click the paperclip in composer to send file
2. wait for the dialogue to select the file to pop up
3. crash instead

### Outcome

#### What did you expect?
it works

#### What happened instead?
From the sounds that my PC makes, this is related to having an old school spinny hard disk drive which mostly sleeps but will wake up when I open a graphical file explorer which tries to display recent files etc that includes said disk. Element crashes exactly when there is this second of waiting time and clear spin up sound, and not when e.g. I work around this by purposely spinning up the disk beforehand.

### Operating system

arch + sway + nemo + ozone element

### Application version

Element Nightly version: 2021122001 Olm version: 3.2.8

### How did you install the app?

aur

### Homeserver

_No response_

### Will you send logs?

Yes

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