I’ve an exterior laborious drive (disk5) with over 14,000 folders. Every time I mount the drive, a background discover course of begins robotically, scanning all of the folders on the drive. This considerably slows down the system because of the giant variety of folders.
I believe this course of could be associated to macOS indexing or another system-level process.
I’ve already thought of excluding the drive from Highlight indexing utilizing System Preferences → Highlight → Privateness, however the issue persists, then I stoped Highlight System broad, however discover course of nonetheless working, additionally after I kill it it commes once more after few 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/information/SofortUpload/Digital camera
discover 5553 user1 5r DIR 1,28 47520 388116 /Volumes/disk5/information/f/information/SofortUpload/Digital camera
Are there every other approaches, akin to system configurations or terminal instructions, to deal with this situation?
Any insights or solutions can be drastically appreciated!
