I’ve an exterior exhausting drive (disk5) with greater than 14,000 folders. Each time I mount the drive, a background scanning course of routinely begins, scanning all of the folders on the drive. This considerably slows down the system because of the massive variety of folders.
I believe this course of might be associated to macOS indexing or another system-level job.
I already thought-about excluding the drive from Highlight indexing utilizing System Preferences → Highlight → Privateness, however the issue persists, then I finished the whole Highlight system, however I discovered that the method remains to be operating, additionally once I shut it it begins once more seem after a couple of seconds.
$ sudo lsof /Volumes/disk5
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
discover 5139 user1 cwd DIR 1,28 256 415684 /Volumes/disk5/information/appdata_oc7tod5g1ozl/preview/1/f/d
discover 5139 user1 5r DIR 1,28 128 420978 /Volumes/disk5/information/appdata_oc7tod5g1ozl/preview/1/f/d/d
discover 5369 user1 cwd DIR 1,28 480 222558 /Volumes/disk5/information/appdata_oc7tod5g1ozl/preview/0/7/c
discover 5369 user1 5r DIR 1,28 96 746358 /Volumes/disk5/information/appdata_oc7tod5g1ozl/preview/0/7/c/a
discover 5553 user1 cwd DIR 1,28 47520 388116 /Volumes/disk5/information/f/recordsdata/SofortUpload/Digicam
discover 5553 user1 5r DIR 1,28 47520 388116 /Volumes/disk5/information/f/recordsdata/SofortUpload/Digicam
Are there different approaches, similar to system configurations or terminal instructions, to deal with this concern?
Any concepts or options shall be drastically appreciated!
