Why am I getting this error:“Cross-thread operation not valid: Control lbFolders accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on.”?

On that line you perform an assignment ( set/add ), which by default is not thread-safe.

You can't access GUI elements from a separate thread. Use a delegate to make the change.

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