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The host editor's four pickers were snapshots taken when it opened, and the comment on EditorAuthenticationChoices said why: a picker whose contents move under somebody halfway through a form is worse than a list a minute stale, and only one editor could be open at a time anyway, so the only way to add a key was to close this one. The second half of that stopped being true when AHostEditorIsInTheWay was split from AVaultEditorIsInTheWay. The host editor is the Hosts screen's business and the keychain's editors are the Vault screen's; neither refuses the other now, which was the right split — it stopped three quarters of a screen going inert over an editor the user was not looking at — but it left the assumption those snapshots rested on false and nothing to notice. So the ordinary way of using the feature was the broken one. Somebody starts editing a host, finds there is no key to bind it to, goes to KEYS, makes one, and comes back to a picker that does not have it — with the fix being to throw the form away and start again. The same for a password, a tag, a group, and for a whole vault made on the Teams screen because the host being typed belongs to the team rather than to the person typing it: the vault they had just made for it was the one place they could not file it. RefreshOpenEditors refills whichever editor is open, and it hangs off ReloadAsync rather than off the twenty-odd commands that write to the vault. That is the choice worth stating, because it is what makes a sync count as well as a save: a key pulled from another machine reaches the open editor by the same path a key typed here does, and a place that wrote to the vault without refreshing the editor would be a bug nobody would find for months. What the old comment was protecting against is real, so every picker is put back onto what it was already showing, by id, and not one typed field is touched. An editor that reset its own bindings because a background sync landed would be a worse bug than the stale list this fixes — it would rebind a host as a side effect of somebody else's work. The placeholder entries go back too, which is the case 3.4 measures: a group deleted on another machine mid-edit still cannot unfile the host when the form is saved. The group editor gets the same treatment for the same reasons; it shares the drawer, and its default binding is lent to every host under it. The snippet editor's vault picker was the same copy of the same list and went stale the same way. It watches TargetVaults rather than the reload, because that screen has always been a wrapper over the vault's collections and has no reload of its own to hang off — which is how it already follows Snippets. The move panels are deliberately left alone. A vault arriving from a sync while one is open still will not appear in it, but a move panel is opened by the act that fills it and its picker resets its selection to the first entry on every rebuild, so refreshing it would move a destination somebody had chosen. Same class of bug, different answer, and not this change. Five tests, and four of them were checked failing with the RefreshOpenEditors call commented out: a key reaching the open host editor and binding when chosen, an item arriving without moving a selection that was already made, a tag arriving as an unworn chip, a key reaching the group editor, and a vault reaching the host and snippet editors without moving either. Manual check 7.12 sits beside 7.11, which is this same bug on the files screen's picker, and says what the worse failure would look like: a picker that moves rather than one that does not notice.