[solved]Using WWW instead of resources.load causes hang

I am writing an editor script that takes two images: one for a texture(.png) and one for a heightmap(.jpeg). It then creates a terrain, applies the texture, and sets the heights according to the heightmap image. It then does this for however many sets of images there are in a given folder.

To avoid unity formatting my images too much, I am using WWW.LoadImageIntoTexture instead of resources.load which I started off with. It ran perfectly using resources.load, and it still worked when I used WWW for the heightmap only. The issue came when I tried to use WWW for both images.

It will start to run, but then after a minute everything will freeze and I need to manually restart my system. I need to make a square terrain that uses an 8x8 grid of smaller terrains. Using the debugger I was able to determine that it has only been able to go as far as the fifth column of terrains before the hang.

 //This works:
 Texture2D textureImage = (Texture2D)Resources.Load<Texture2D>("[image path here]");    
 
 //This causes a hang:
 WWW _texImage = new WWW ("file:// [image path here]" );
 while (!_texImage.isDone) {}
 Texture2D _textureImage = new Texture2D (2048, 2048);
 _texImage.LoadImageIntoTexture(_textureImage);
 
 //I also tried this and no luck:
 WWW _texImage = new WWW ("file:// [image path here]");
 while (!_texImage.isDone) {}
 Texture2D textureImage = _texImage.texture;

The rest of the code is identical. From what I could tell from my search, the while loop will cause a problem in webplayer, but I'm not concerned about that right now. I was having the same issue when I had nothing there.

I'm still pretty new Unity as well as c# so any help would be appreciated.