thanks for the input, I think so too, it seems like it's taking those footprints, although locally cached & it's on my local drive, one by one & simulating the placement process (which takes a minute for each footprint) then converting then to an integrated lib.
we still couldn't figure out why some footprints would take like 5 secs while others (LED) would take around 45 seconds. Although this practice of manually placing parts on a specified size PCB is only for testing & not regularly used, the standard SCH > PCB is normal in it's action.