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**oraz** · December 5, 2021, 10:39pm

When I install a new node project, sublime takes about 10 minutes indexing at 100% CPU
I added: "index_exclude_patterns": ["/node_modules/*"] to Preferences.sublime-settings, but it didn’t change anything. Is it possible to stop indexing the node_modules folder? It seems like a big problem right now.

If there is no way to exclude the folder can I turn off indexing completely?

Thanks for any help.

**bschaaf** · December 6, 2021, 12:29am

"index_exclude_patterns" matches against the absolute path of files, so a pattern like "node_modules/*" would work.

**oraz** · December 6, 2021, 1:35am

so just the leading / could be the problem?

**bschaaf** · December 6, 2021, 1:48am

Correct, the leading / matches the root directory.

**oraz** · December 6, 2021, 1:49am

Oh that makes sense, thanks

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