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indexingpycharm
guettli
guettli

Reputation: 27969

Why does PyCharm index directories outside of project root?

I created a new virtualenv on the shell in this directory:

/home/x/projects/foo-env

Then I started PyCharm and opened above directory as new project.

Since PyCharm took very long to index above empty virtualenv I looked at the process:

ls -l /proc/PID-OF-PYCHARM/fd
....
lr-x------ 1 x x 64 Aug 22 13:02 29 -> /home/x/Musik/Hit-Giganten/Best_Of_Italo_Hits/cd1/08.Adriano_Celentano__24.000_Baci.ogg

Why does PyCharm look at my folder containing Italian pop-music?

I googled, but could only find a way how to exclude directories which are in the project root. Above file is outside the project root.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 603

Answers (1)

Ishita Singh
Ishita Singh

Reputation: 337

Go to Settings->Project->Project interpreter->Click on the settings icon button->Remove the path of the directory that you don't want to be included.

Found the solution at: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000550410-Constant-indexing-of-external-data-folder-makes-pycharm-unusable

Upvotes: 3

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