PHPStorm hangs on highlighting a word, then Ctrl+Shift+F

I have PHPStorm 2.1.5. It could be that you encountered this, if so please suggest.

Generally, I don't care when and how ofter PHPStorm hangs, but this one is very consistent and annoying, because I cannot search a string.

Thanks.

Solution

SOLVED:

It had a very deep symlinked directory. Adding it to excludes, solves this problem.

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