Indexing excluded directories in PyCharm 3

Question

I am trying to exclude some directories from Pycharm's project index as they are recursive symbolic links. I have excluded the directories and invalidated the caches and restarted but PyCharm still indexes these excluded directories. It does not result in duplicate results in my search results etc. but indexing takes so much longer.

Is there a way to exclude these directories from being indexed?

Answer 1

if i am right: File | Settings | project structure and select the folders you need and click exlcuded.

from documentation

Mark a folder as an excluded root.

Excluded roots are not visible to PyCharm. Usually, one would like to exclude temporary >build folders, generated output, logs, and other project output. Excluding the unnecessary >paths is a good way to significantly improve performance.

This command is duplicated on the context menu of a content root.

Answer 2

Besides @FooBarUser's suggestion, you can go to Preferences->Editor->File Types and here you have a box where you can add the files and folders you want to exclude from your project.

The folders and files that you include will not be shown in your project.