Due making a backup shortly before a breaking glitch, it actually happened a whole bunch of times across a whole bunch of computers. Sublime&#x27;s licensed to the user, not the machine, so over a few months while I was setting up a slew of machines I kept forgetting about it when I restored my app directory. Add that one of the packages would freak out when curl wasn&#x27;t already installed first and it was a mess. Sublime would start, update, screw up the interface, popup, and then I&#x27;d have to close it and restart a few times until the package manager got it up to a stable point.<p>I say <i>huge</i> because it was <i>god damn irritating</i>. In a giant checklist of stuff I was worried about, it was always an afterthought that caught me by surprise. When the artifacting completely craps out the side bar such that the folder tree no longer updates when files change, you can&#x27;t even tell if the files are still there.<p>EDIT: To really drive the point home: this happened <i>a whole lot</i>. The above is a story of woe and sadness, but the real kicker was simply the autoupdate as noted elsewhere by `jbrooksuk. For a long time I used the Soda Theme [0], one of the top packages on Package Control. It had a wierd glitch with hotkeys and would end up reloading shortly after startup. It was possible that it would garf things up even on restart as a result (possibly as a race condition such that if no updates were performed, it restarted fast enough to not bork whatever drew the iterface). I used Soda theme for years, but have recently switched to Seti and enjoy the change quite a bit.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packagecontrol.io&#x2F;packages&#x2F;Theme%20-%20Soda" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packagecontrol.io&#x2F;packages&#x2F;Theme%20-%20Soda</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packagecontrol.io&#x2F;packages&#x2F;Seti_UI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packagecontrol.io&#x2F;packages&#x2F;Seti_UI</a>