It didn’t crash. It didn’t freeze. The splash screen dissolved, revealing the familiar light-gray interface. The compass in the top right corner spun to life, and the tree structure on the left stood ready, empty and waiting for his design.
The files copied over. The progress bar crawled. 20%... 45%... 78%...
He paused. The forum threads he had read during his research echoed in his mind. “Avoid spaces in directory names at all costs.” Spaces in file paths were the silent killers of automation scripts later down the line.