PSE9 - organizer -  move folders

Hi,
I have a problem with moving folders to another in Organizer. After the move, the content of moved folder has random pictures in it!
What's wrong?
Thanks for a solution

That's exactly how I did it - but the result was a mess up of the content.
Could it be, that my catalog is corrupt or that PSE9 cannot handle my < 10'000 pictures?
I've ran a optimize/repair of the catalog, but the result is still the same.  The catalog I'm using is from an old PC with PSE4. I've used backup/restore to move to this new PC. Unfortunately, with Backup/Restore the whole folder structure is flat now - so I wanted to correct this and would like to organize my folders with a better structure.
Another thing I've noticed, that (still in folder view of the organizer) I have many folders greyed out - how can I delete them? Could this be a reason for the problems with move?
Thanks and kind regards
Kurt

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