How to stop PhpStorm from indexing my `excluded` directory?

Question

Within PhpStorm 2018.1.6 I've got a directory x which I have excluded using Settings | Directories -> Exclude directory x. PhpStorm takes care of most of the directories which I have excluded but not this one. While I am editing/creating PHP tests PhpStorm constantly is busy with indexing this directory.

Directory x is part of an imported project.

Is there any reason which PhpStorm can have to exclude an excluded directory and indexes it as well? The indexing process takes forever.

Answer 1

Things to try (from Jetbrain team):

• Remove "Add packages as libraries" checkbox at Preferences | Languages & Frameworks | PHP | Composer (click Ok to save).

• Check that you don't have those excluded directories added as include path at Preferences | Languages & Frameworks | PHP afterward.

Test by rebuilding cache File | Invalidate Caches / Restart...

I encountered this problem when I had the root project path listed in the include path and filed it as a bug and they suggested these things.