disable sources scan for a specific folder in netbeans 7.1 RC2

Question

I'm having an issue with netbeans scanning a large directory of PHP files The scan takes about 2 hours and totally blocks the IDE's autocompletion and slows it down a lot

I tried a few things:

• disabling auto-scanning of sources as mentionned here
  
• adding the pattern of the files in the "Files ignored by the IDE" box
  
• adding the directory to the ignored folder list in my project properties
  

None of the above worked.

An idea anyone?

Answer 1

You also might be able to ignore just some files from the automatic source scan.

See netbeans wiki