Baking particle causes Crash when attempting to edit

Hello. i dont know if its a bug or if its expected to happen, but even the simplest hair particle system caused blender to crash.

if you add particlesystem, and enable hair dynamics, bake it, and then try to edit the hair, you will find that blender will either get stuck, or crash.

it took me a few minutes and a few crashes to figure out why it happened, so a suggestion would be to add a notification like: Please free Bake before attempting to edit the particles!

not a huge deal to me, but it might be for others.

either that, or ask: “Do you wish to Free bake before edditing?”. i know its not critical and top priority for the blend dev team, but its such a simple thing. i guess it wont take more than a few min to fix it.

Have you reported this to the bug tracker?