Absurd Amounts of Memory Getting Gobbled Up! (MacBook Pro M3 18GB)

Can anyone advise?

### Fujifilm user, RAW lossless files, 16.4.4 C1 version, MacBook Pro M3 18GB memory

I started editing a wedding due in a few weeks and for some reason when I am culling from a folder of 1 or 2 thousand images, after about 5 or 10 minutes my machine slowly starts using more and more memory, to the point that the "Swap Used" (seen in Activity Monitor) slowly rises from 1GB to 5 to 10 and ALL THE WAY UP TO 55GB at which point C1 just crashed.

What in the fu#*& is going on here? It's to the point where I need to stop culling after about 30 images selected because I'm suddenly at 10GB of swap used (unified memory?).

I have literally closed every other program and this is still happening. My machine is plenty strong to not have this problem.

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