Lightroom freezes when connecting external drive

I recently bought a new Macbook Pro (M4), after years of using Windows.
I put all my photos on an external SSD drive (Kingston SX2000), and I transfered the old catalog files from windows to the new mac.

When connecting the drive and trying to move between photos/folders in Lightroom, the app freezes.

Trying to open the drive in Finder causes Finder to freeze too.

When physically disconnecting the drive (ejecting doesn't work as well....), everything is back to normal.

Sometimes it works OK, but most of the time it doesn't.

When Lightroom is off, the drive works without any problem.

On windows 10, no problems too.

Reinstalling won't help.

Lightroom version: 14.1.1

MacOS: Sequoia 15.3

The drive is exFAT.

Any help?

Thanks

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