Hello,
Sorting a large number of photos without thumbnails can indeed be challenging.
You can use 3rd party software to help you on this like: Adobe lightroom, google photos.
Or you can sort in smaller batches, instead of trying to view all thumbnails at once, move a smaller number of photos to a temporary folder, sort them, and then move them to their respective folders. This can reduce the load on your system.
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