LrC stalls while moving photos between folders

[MTBirder]

I have been working on cleaning up my LrC catalog and working to make sure I have everything backed up. During this process, I discovered several photos had been inadvertently moved to a folder nearby the one I intended it to go in. However, when I attempt to move those photos to the appropriate folder, LrC completely bogs down, working for over 12 hours with the "operation in progress" bar never budging. What is really confusing is that soemtimes one or several photos will immediately go into their new folder, no muss, no fuss.

I have tried quitting LrC, uninstalling & reintalling LrC, renaming the photos, renaming the folders, restarting the computer. Nothing seems to move this along.

I am working on a Mac Studio with Apple M1 Max chip running OS Sequioa 15.1.1; and I am using the most recent version of LrC.  I've been a Lightroom user for many years and never run into this issue previously.

Does anyone have any ideas on resolving this?

[dj_paige]

Move the photos in your operating system and then re-connect in LrC. www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

[MTBirder]

dj_paige,
Thank you ~ that's another solution I had tired, but failed to mention above. It seems to work, but only sporadically. I'm hoiping I have some setting in Preferences that has gotten messed up that might provide a permanent fix.
Thanks again for your suggestion.

CHeri

[dj_paige]

I have never seen anyone report that moving the folders in your operating system and reconnecting works "sportadically". What part works sporadically? The moving of the folders in your operating system, or the reconnecting?

[MTBirder]

dj_paige,
I am not attempting to move FOLDERS, rather individual IMAGES to a different folder. When I said "sporadically," I intended to convey the fact that the suggestion (to move the photos in my operating system, then reconnect in LrC) works some of the time, but fails to accomplish the requested move to a new folder at other times.
Thanks again.

[dj_paige]

So what part of the process fails intermittently? The moving of the photos in your operating system? Or the re-connecting of the photos in LrC?