MySQL Workbench Hangs attempting to Open MySQL Editor

Post author: Yiwei Shen
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Posted on 2021年06月12日

When this bug happens, it shows that it takes time to open the MySQL Editor, but the fact is that it will never open. So you will wait forever.

I am on MacOS Catalina and the MySQL Workbench version is 8.0.22, just in case you want to know.

Why this error happens (My guess):

You changed the password to the MySQL database user, but it somehow failed to sync the password in the keychain.

The solution:

Go to the /Applicaiton/Utilities/ to find the Keychain Access App and run it. Search and delete the password to the database user. Try search ‘MySQL’. Reopen the MySQL Workbench and you should be fine now.