Sorry that I bring up this old topic again.
First Thank you very much for the detailed explanation.
But as it was mentioned before, moving a whole folder containing a few GBs of stuff takes forever.
By now I’ve spent over 7 hours just waiting for UE to complete its moving operations and I’m still not finished organizing my Project (To give an example: moving the Paragon Grux folder alone took around 2 hours).
It is a fresh project. I had the foresight to not use any asset before moving it, so there should really be nothing that is referencing to them by that time. By the way, the project is stored on an almost new SSD.
And what makes things even worse is that my systen can’t be used for anything else while doing this. It literally freezes for half an hour (with only UE opened) and after it has finished moving the folder the buttons in my Windows explorer are completely messed up (weird scales, most of them missing) and my system remains incredibly slow even after killing UE until I restart.
I don’t get why UE has such issues moving files around. My computer (while certainly not high end) is decent enough to handle high poly sculpting in Blender just fine, let alone simply moving files around.
Edit:
I’ve just moved the remaining assets inside the Windows Explorer and it took (!) Seconds. I’m aware, that may have messed up some references (although I didn’t use any of the assets that have been moved, by now) but I’m seriously considering, that it might be a lot faster to just fix references, if necessary.