GPT4All 2.8.0 client crashes instantly when adding a populated "Local docs" folder

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the bug:

Going to settings, Local Docs, pointing to a folder containing a few PDFs; when clicking "Add" GPT4All crashes. It then crashes at startup until I delete the localdocs_v1.db file.

"Local Docs" used to work on this machine with GPT4All 2.7.3.

GPT4All works fine if I reset all settings but don't set up any Local Docs.

If I set up an empty folder as a Local docs, it works; however as soon as I drop a PDF into this folder, GPT4All crashes.

After restart, GPT4All crashes once if there's any new PDF in the Local Docs, then run the second time. However if I ask specific questions related to the Local Docs, it doesn't seem to use them.

configuration:

Running GPT4All 2.8.0 on MacOS Monterey 12.7.5 (Mac Pro Intel 32 GB RAM).

installed local models

Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct.Q4_0.gguf Nous-Hermes-2-Mistral-7B-DPO.Q4_0.gguf all-MiniLM-L6-v2-f16.gguf all-MiniLM-L6-v2.gguf2.f16.gguf mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1.Q4_0.gguf mistral-7b-openorca.Q4_0.gguf mistral-7b-openorca.gguf2.Q4_0.gguf

debugging

Unfortunately the first few crashes opened a debugging window with traces, but it doesn't happen anymore for some reason.