Sublime mysteriously stops indexing

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I noticed that Sublime started giving me incomplete results when hovering over a method to go to its source. I figured the indexes had gotten corrupted, so I made a backup folder and moved the indexes there, thinking that Sublime would automatically rebuild the indexes.

Nothing. Clicking on Help > Indexing status revealed no workers, no attempt to re-index.

I finally remembered that the last time this happened, a preference had gotten changed. Sure enough, when I opened my preferences, I found this at the bottom of the file:

    // "index_files": false,  // HOW DID THIS NONSENSE GET HERE?  NEVER, NEVER, NEVER!
    "index_files": false,

The first line is from the first time this happened, and I commented it out. The second line has just appeared out of thin air-- I didn't put it there!

My question is, does anybody know why this would happen, and is there any way to prevent it?

(Sublime Build 4169 on Windows 10)

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