Thank you for the information.
The issue I found was if I was just dragging a subfolder (with only maybe one folder beneath), it worked. It worked for most of my folders (Travel, Friends, House etc)
When it did not work (no error message, just did not move the pictures), was when I had a big tree's worth of subfolders.ex with the following ex of Family
Ex C:\....\family\mom\relatives\x\y there is also \family\dad\relatives\a\b \family\kids\relatives\j\k etc/
& under mom, dad & kids there could have been more than just one relatives subfolder & folders under them
Any way. I got around it by recreating a less complex substructure & using the 'EDIT- select all' under each folder & then 'FILE - Move' command.
Now, I'm at the point I'm trying to back up the catalog, but I do not see any pop-up, as I usually do, giving me percentage done... so I am a little worried.
Thanks again, since you got me to finally just do it!