Acrobat continuously locks up while trying to combine multiple files into a pdf

Acrobat continuously locks up while trying to combine multiple files into a pdf. I've filed at least 2-3 posts about this in the past year or two. I took 31 scanned jpegs just now (300 dpi) and went to Acrobat and chose combine multiple files into a pdf. dragged in my images, i hit combine and now i get the spinning rainbow wheel of death again. And the blue bar is stuck at "checking for security settings....". Again I've reported this various times. When is adobe going to fix this??? Yes I'm running the latest version of acrobat. MacOS 13.3.1 (a).