Metadata Validation Taking 15+ Minutes

[bikeking8]

OS: Windows 11
Versions: several going back, up to and including 13.27-beta 3

Whenever I click yes on refreshing the local database, the step where it is validating the database takes an inordinate amount of time. I've timed it up to around an hour sometimes; usually I just have to force exit the application.

This bug has been mentioned in a previous post that was marked as solved (below), but as stated in that post itself it is neither a fix or a workaround:

 

Edited Sunday at 03:21 PM by bikeking8
Clarification

[viritys]

While they didn't call it a workaround, I tagged it as such because it enabled me to bypass that hour-long daily wait for metadata. It’s not a permanent fix, though. I think this issue is rare and tied to collection size. My LB has ~150k entries, which is likely well above average and I'm guessing the feature isn't optimized for this volume. Is your collection also enormous? :)