Roundtripping to Motion takes forever

I'm an old hand at round tripping to Motion. I don't ever remember it taking this long to update after 'opening in editor' and making an adjustment to the existing Motion file. For some reason, in Studio 3, it takes a full 2 minutes of spinning beach ball to update in FCP.
I've trashed Prefs, and even zeroed everything out and completely reinstalled the suite.
What gives?

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For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.5.1 or higher are Intel Mac compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. Versions 1.5.1 or later are Intel Mac compatible.
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