Moving images: slow!

Lightroom 3.3 RC on a 2010 Mac Pro with all bells & whistles (RAID 0, SSD, 16 GB RAM ...)
When I move images by grabbing them in Grid view and dragging them into another folder (on the same partition, therefore it's a real MOVE!) it used to be slow if I stayed in the same folder in Grid view. However, once I selected another folder that was not part of the move process (i.e. neither source nor target) it would move filed incredibly fast (maybe 10-20 per sec.?).
Now this is gone. Moving files even within the same partition is a crawl, no matter what folder is selected. It's like 1 or two images per second.
What's up??
(Also reported on Adobe's Bug Report form)
Thomas

Thomas,
Thanks for filing a bug report.  It is still significantly slower if you have the grid view showing the folder where you are moving from but this function should really be almost instantaneous regardless of where you are browsing.
If you are in windows, there is still material improvement if you first empty out your windows trash can - otherwise we will have to wait for a fix.
Jeff

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