I have Lightroom CC classic (latest version) running on windows 10 with a 1.2GB catalogue - on a SD drive and a fast computer.
However, Lightroom takes quite a time to load and most of that time the status is "Reading preferences".
I have already deleted and re-created the preference file but it did not change anything. Is there anything else I can do to debug this? Could the "reading preferences" be a misleading text while it does something else? Is my catalogue too big?