Digital Editions is "stuck"

I use a MAC, and had a Sony E-reader. Recently, the Sony reader died and I decided to go with the Nook instead.
I have more than 100 books in EPUB format, and tried to add them to the Dgital Editions Library. I first was able to do so a couple at a time with no problems.
THen I decided to go "whole hog" and selected over 90 to be transferred into ADE. Now, all that happens is I get a message saying "Verifying Document" but no progress is made and ADE is frozen completely.
I tried uninstalling ADE by following the uninstalation procedure as described on the Adobe website, and downloaded the stand alone version of ADE.
When it started up, I got the same message and the same "frozen" state.
Help!!

I really don't think it's a matter of can't: I think that they just aren't doing that much with the application.  As I mentioned in my original post, I contacted the onlie support chat which resulted in a less than accurate answer.  Perhaps if they are contacted enough, they might actually incorporate what we have been discussing (i.e. delteting the book from the drive.)
I've learned to live with the minor inconvenience of manually deleting books and just do some "housekeeping" every so often.  I think most of us would appreciate the automatic deletion from disk when we delete a book.  I still find the process via ADE easier than sideloading and deleteing books.
Please update us if you do contact Adobe and get any new information pertaining to the status of any possible automatic delete feature in future releases.

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