Windows 10: Search index excludes any folder with a .git subfolder

I use Git to keep track of my projects, and this creates a .git folder in any repository that is tracked.


I am unable to search anything in these folders. For example, I know that filename.txt exists inside one such folder, and when I type filename.txt in the Start Menu search, I do not get any result. I am able to search all other folders properly.


I've tried rebuilding the Windows Index but that does not help. I used the Settings app and found that these folders are excluded, and then removed them. However, when I check again after a few minutes, they are back in the excluded list.


System info:

Edition: Windows 10 Home Single Language

Version: 20H2

Installed on: ‎08/‎03/‎2021

OS build: 19042.867

Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0





Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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Windows indexing is not excluding folders that are excluded

Hello,

My Windows start menu Windows search is showing results from the AppData folder despite the AppData folder being set as an excluded folder. My Windows 10 "Searching Windows" setting is set to classic and the excluded folder is clearly shown on the list.
The issue persists ever after rebuilding the index. How can I fix this?

 

How to efficiently exclude .svn and .git folders in Windows 10 indexing?

I have 2 big folders "Projects" and "Studies" with lots of SVN and some GIT projects inside. I had to disable indexing for them entirely, because, due to the sheer amount of files in .svn and .git folders, the quick search in the Start Menu worked very slowly, rendering it useless (and I really use that feature).

The problem is, that since these folders are explicitly excluded from indexing not even regular "slow" file searching works in them and this is quite annoying. And I really need the ability to search my project folders.

Manually excluding each .svn and .git folder could be a solution, but it would be unmaintainable, because there's really many of them.

Can you guys suggest anything? Thanks in advance.

 

Searching Windows - Find my Files - Excluded Folders - Please HELP someone

Hi Greg and thanks a bunch for answering me. In the Search then Search Windows of settings like I said there was a list of "Excluded Folders" I'm guessing a Windows Search would not search/look in those folders when searching for something in Windows. I
can only guess they were set up as Excluded Folders by HP or the HP Laptop seller to me. I'm sure there must have been a good reason for those Excluded Folders and I should have never removed or deleted those folders. I noticed when I removed all of the excluded
folders from Windows Search in Settings that a box popped up and the index numbers started to rise in count really really quick. So I paused indexing. I was afraid the index number would go from about (I can't remember) 20,000 to hundreds of thousands of an
index number. which I think would really slow a Windows Search down even though I don't know what those index numbers stand for exactly. I'm guessing the index numbers stand for files, folders or both. As the article, your URL took me to on how to rebuild
your index shows I'm not sure that would help me. When done rebuilding the index, would there be a new list of Excluded Folders in Windows Search? Because that's what I want. I'm sure HP knew exactly what folders to exclude and why. Is there a way to just
undo my mistake of removing the original list of excluded folders? Like roll back to early yesterday morning and have the exact same list of excluded folders there were then? Or would following the steps of the article and rebuilding my Windows Search Index
give me a new list of Excluded Folders in the Windows Search?

Respectfully,

Barry