Using .plexignore makes scan very slow, better options?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.18.8.2468
Player Version#: 4.2.61

Using Linux I have a mounted network share
/mnt/server/Docs/ which contains folders with properly named multi-episode documentaries in subfolders. It also has a folder called /mnt/server/Docs/+Other which contains all the single episode documentaries that Plex can’t and shouldn’t index. I’m using a .plexignore file within /Docs/ containing
+Other/*

This works so it ignores every file/subfolder in that folder but scanning is very slow of that entire library. In the console I can see this message below repeat for every folder in +Other. I assume this is slowing it down. Other than changing my folder structure and moving /+Other/ outside of /Docs/, is there any way I can ignore the folder more efficiently?

Message
[Scanners.bundle] Removing directory due to plexignore rule (/mnt/server/Docs/+Unsorted/*): /mnt/server/Docs/+Other/BBC The Great British Year
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I am seeing the same behavior! It is significantly slowing down the scanning of the libraries using .plexignore. I would also like a way to fix this.

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Has anyone else found a better solution for this?

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Move the unwanted file(s) & directories elsewhere then Plex won’t need to actively ignore them.

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I understand that will work but I would rather not if at all possible. I just don’t understand why if plex is told to ignore /Folder1/* that it still goes through the entire folder and all subfolders and then ignores it afterwards. Why not just skip the folder entirely?

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I believe it’s because plexignore filters the output of the readdir() activity and does not get involved with actual tree path resolution and traversal.

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Depending on the OS and the NAS, you could use ACLs to change permissions on Docs/Other so that the Plex server user doesn’t have read/traverse (execute) permission on it.

If you don’t want to move Docs/Other, move the other stuff in Docs?

/mnt/server/Docs/BBC
/mnt/server/Docs/Tiger King
/mnt/server/Docs/Star Wars
/mnt/server/Docs/Herzog

And add those to the Library instead of Docs itself.

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