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So, I tried to recreate what you did and I could. So then I tried to recreate what I did and something strange happened.

I copy/pasted an email address from an email into the field. It included a space before the first character (because it was from an email) and I deleted it, apparently before it had finished the search. The search bar got hung up. The circle kept moving and nothing came of it.

I don't recall the circle moving the first time I did this, so I tried it from scratch again. I reloaded the page and copy pasted. With the space, after a moment, it worked.

So I tried it again from scratch. I reloaded and copy/pasted with the space but this time deleted it before I saw the search results. The hang-up happened again. No matter what I put into that box, once it was hung up (based on the revolving circle), nothing would show up.

So what I think happened is that I deleted the space quickly enough that that search function got hung up. Then, since I kept putting addresses in the same field (without reloading the page), none showed up. Eventually I tried a few other dashboard places and then came back and searched instead by username, which worked.

So maybe this is one of those limit-cases where something just weird happens if you do the right number of steps with the right browser?

Thanks for following up on this, Paul. I've just spent a bit of time trying to break things, but I've been unsuccessful. Any combination of pasting, typing, deleting, waiting, not-waiting, etc - nothing seems to break the autocomplete. It does sometimes take a few seconds for the autocomplete request to complete, but this is due to latency rather than any bug.

If you're able to reproduce regularly, could you please open your browser tools to detect any errors? Hit F11. Look for Console errors as you reproduce. Then, check the Network tab (assuming you have one), filtering by XHR requests if necessary, to see if you're getting bad requests (non-200).

I AM able to reproduce regularly. This time by just copy/pasting an email address again.

There was a 404 error: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

This is from the network tab (new entries are showing up periodically):

admin-ajax.php 200 xhr jquery.js?ver=1.12.4-1.11.12:4 532 B 799 ms
admin-ajax.php 200 xhr jquery.js?ver=1.12.4-1.11.12:4 532 B 800 ms

Thanks, Paul. Can you take a screenshot of the error? It's helpful to know that there's a 404, but I'll also need to know exactly what request is triggering the 404 - the admin-ajax.php calls you reference are getting 200 responses. If possible, please also expand the entry in the console, so that I can see the headers etc for the 404 request.

This time by just copy/pasting an email address again.

Copying and pasting an email address into the input field would still require a keyboard press into the input box to trigger an AJAX search.

Paul, did you try pasting an email address and then typing a letter and deleting it inside the input field?