iCloud Photos

I have a brand new computer, running Ventura. My Photos library was being stored on an external drive. With this computer I moved it to my HD. I have turned on all the iCloud syncing on all devises. I also want to house hard copies of my photos on my computer.

I uploaded all the photos, recreated all my albums. Every time I open photos it saying my library is syncing. It has been doing this for two days. The status bar never moves. I have about 4800 photos in my library. I have looked on Google and YouTube to try and figure out why things never seem to fully sync. I am not considering starting all over again, but the thought of recreating all my albums is not appealing.

Wondering if there is a step-by-step I should follow that I didn't follow the first time.

As always, the help is appreciated.