Ignored files are still scanned?

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Is there any valid reason for ignored files to still be scanned? I have set up a share with an .stignore for two specific files that currently exist in the directory, a third file will be added at some point in the future that I wish to have shared. The folder correctly lists 0 items, ~0 B, but also says that it’s going to be scanning for 1h 30m. Since these files are to be ignored, why scan them? It’s seems like a huge waste of disk IO/CPU cycles.

OS is Win 2012 R2, syncthing v0.13.10, Windows (64 bit).

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Ignored files are not scanned, so something else is going on. Maybe it was already scanning when you added the ignore patterns?

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I think that may have been it, I restarted it and it’s stopped the scan now… thanks!

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