Lens/camera module installer is slow and sometimes hangs

[Egregius ([Greg] (Micro 4/3 + Win11))]

I had this problem with PL5. After removing the optics modules, restarting, and trying again, the problem didn’t recur:

PL5.3.1 optics module download process took a very long time, then crashed

In PhotoLab 5, I selected a folder on my C: drive that I’m sure I’d examined before, but not since indexing my photo folders a few days ago. PL popped up a window wanting to download optics modules for a particular camera and lens with which every photo in the folder was taken. I went ahead with the download as usual, and the progress meters went to completion. Then nothing happened, except I could hear my other hard drives being accessed heavily. (C: is an SSD, the other drives are mostly HDDs.…