Plexignore seems inefficient. am I doing something wrong

A question about using a plexignore file.

Does it slow down scans?

I have created a plexignore file in the root of my Movies folder to exclude one specific directory.

# Ignore directory "_deleted"
*_deleted/*

Which is working, but looking in the logs file i am getting this for each and every movie that is scanned:

Nov 21, 2020 13:16:05.998 [0x7fbe927fc700] DEBUG - [Scanners.bundle] Removing directory due to plexignore rule (/path/to/Movies/*_deleted/*): (/path/to/Movies/_deleted/Movie Folder1
Nov 21, 2020 13:16:05.998 [0x7fbe927fc700] DEBUG - [Scanners.bundle] Removing directory due to plexignore rule (/path/to/Movies/*_deleted/*): (/path/to/Movies/_deleted/Movie Folder2
Nov 21, 2020 13:16:05.998 [0x7fbe927fc700] DEBUG - [Scanners.bundle] Removing directory due to plexignore rule (/path/to/Movies/*_deleted/*): (/path/to/Movies/_deleted/Movie Folder3
Nov 21, 2020 13:16:06.004 [0x7fbe917fa700] DEBUG - Request: [127.0.0.1:58586 (Loopback)] PUT /activities/da036920-afea-4b1d-87c3-31a450acce6f?percentComplete=%2B0%2E0157743786&subtitle=Movie%20%281987%29 (25 live) GZIP Si

The above lines are repeated for each item scanned. so with over 6000 movies, that is quite a lot

This seems to be to be rather inefficient and am wondering if this is slowing down the scans.

At the moment I only have 3 Movies in the ignored directory, but when more get added that will add another line to the scanner log for each added item.

So have I put the plexignore file in the right place? or should I put it in the _deleted directory and change it to exlude eveything in there?

This seemed to be somewhat related… but has been closed

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