I'm not sure what's going on in the background here and/or why it takes so long to navigate to and then populate a folder in Premiere's "locate file" interface, but it needs major improvement.

It's especially apparent if a folder has several hundreds or even thousands of clips/media files.

Opening the same folder in Windows Explorer (and probably Finder) or even Premiere's own Media Browser takes no time to populate all the files/folders within. So why does the locate media window get hung up on "Reading" a folder or drive? What else is it reading?

Please improve this experience overall, it's a major time sink.