Disable indexing for subtree

[christianlupus]

I have a cloud that shares a large music folder using external mount to a complete group. In the past, I was able to exclude this folder from the indexing by creating a .noindex file accordingly. This feature seems to be gone in the meantime.

The problem is that the indexing of the complete music archive (>300GB, >50,000 files, counting is just running) multiplied by the number of users having access to the external storage results in such a huge number of files that indexing takes days to weeks. Currently, the index is somehow broken. I try to figure out what the problem is but I cannot get it as each testing iteration takes so incredibly long.

Was there a 9good) reason for removing this very handy feature?

[joshtrichards]

Reports in the forums too: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/handling-of-shared-folders-in-fulltext-search/172909

The code looks to still be in place. Not sure why it may have stopped working.