Raw JSON Editor freezes / seems broken

[Marty Wasserman]

I'm running the NMSSaveEditor on a Windows 11 VM using Parallels on my Mac. So far, I've been able to do just about anything that the Save Editor can do, which is great since the program isn't available as a native Mac app. However, today I was trying to use the JSON editor to add the XO Helmet to my main save, and the Save Editor froze up. Note that it didn't show as frozen in Task Manager, but I was unable to actually get into the "KnownSpecials" part of my JSON file. I was reading on the Steam discussion forum that larger save files basically don't work with the built-in JSON editor. My save file is just over 5MB.

I see that some other people are also running into JSON issues, so I'm not sure if this is directly related to those or not. I waited nearly 10 minutes and the save editor was still stuck.