18.6 issue with a lot of clips?

Not going to lie I thought I had clips that just went bye bye but I noticed I tried to add a clip to the timeline under edit and the clip title just turned red and it never moved to the timeline.. so I check.. the clip is still on the media device.. I even restarted my laptop (win 11, 16 GB memory, 2TB hhd space.)

As I typed this it seemed to show up in the player view but still not on the timeline.. this is the first time with over 20 clips, it just seems really bogged down now.