i managed to do another transaction on an external wallet today i combined 42 and it took 3 hours.
Does it get faster once you have less remaining funded inputs in your wallet?
I also wonder if your Ledger with the current wallet will work okay again once all your inputs are consolidated, or that somehow the existence of those used addresses will still slow it down.
it's not faster yet. I'll get a new hardware wallet on Tuesday, then I'll try to get everything over and will then reset the ledger.
I will report Tuesday if I was successful.
And I got a response from Ledger today:
"It looks like your problem is that you are sending a high number of transactions to a hardware wallet. If you are sending many small payments or so-called "dust payments" to an address controlled by your hardware wallet can cause your blockchain transactions to become out of sync, which can significantly increase the time it takes to construct or validate transactions.
You can either create an account on Ledger and make the transfer little by little, or try Electrum."