Lightroom Classic downloading

[danbwil]

I have 60,000 photos in a folder (downloaded from iCloud) that is being added to Lightroom Classic. Now it has been 'downloading' for two days. I can understand parsing the folder, but what is it downloading? 

(This is on a year old top of line Dell Alienware machine). 

[dj_paige]

Now it has been 'downloading' for two days.

What is meant by the word "it"? Are you talking about slow downloading from iCloud? Are you talking about a slow function in Lightroom Classic? If so, what function? (Downloading what from where to where?)

[DdeGannes]

@dj_paige , see the Author's attachment.

[Keith Reeder]

The "it" is LightRoom.

[danbwil]

Yes, the 'it' is Lrc.  After adding the folder (with 60,000 photos) I started getting the messages shown in the attachement.  The iCloud photos have already been downloaded to the C drive.  I selected this C drive folder to add into Lrc.  I am not sure what the messages mean when 'downloading'.  The only file getting larger is 'Temporary Import Data.db' in Pictures/Lightroom (64,592 KB yesterday at 10:00 to now (15th at 10:00) at 167,572 KB).

[danbwil]

The downloading stopped.  I suspect it was related to adding a folder that was coordinated with iCloud.  I copied the photos to another drive and did not see the download issue; but adding the folder still brought LRC to a standstill for a couple days until an out of memory error poped up.