Final Cut hangs with "Loading Motion Content" when opening library

When opening one of libraries I almost immediately get a beach ball and see "Loading Motion Content" under "Rendering" in the Background Taks window. Final Cut hangs and I am forced to restart. I don't have any version of Motion and this problem just appeared in this library.
Any suggestions? I've used Preference Manager to trash preferences to no avail.

I followed the procedure suggested by Luis Sequeira1 in several other threads and deleted the flexolibrary. I no longer see any "Loading Motion Content" message when opening the library and the it seems to be ok, with all the media, multicam clips, compound clips, and projects as expected.
I have three questions:
1) What information does the flexolibrary contain?
2) How is Final Cut able to recreate a flexolibrary?
3) Might deleting the flexolibrary be a way to solve all sorts of problems with libraries?

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