How can I stop indexing intellij idea?

Question

Without \"excluding\" folders, how can I stop Indexing intellij idea on start? It\'s very very annoying that it starts indexing on startup without allowing you to, for examp

Answer 1

Now, "excluding" folders is the only way to disable indexing when a change occurs in one of excluded folders (except for generated sources that mustn't be excluded).

Checked with Intellij 2016.2.5

I suggest you to tune your Intellij configuration, see this post : https://stackoverflow.com/a/22508853/779338