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Because I cannot post a new Reply on similar questions I want to share a solution I used to move huge Library.Photos to another attached disk.
At Terminal I simply run the command
mv /path-to-source/ /path-to-target/
and it started to move the file immediately
Windows, Windows 10
Other long time "Preparing to move" file solution
