For your kind information:

Connect an adb-enabled device to the PC
Run Android Studio
Open the "Device Explorer" (located within the vertical menu bar at the right of the screen)
Right-click a folder i.e. /system
Select "Save as" and chose a folder of your choice (but NOT the current project folder) ==> Copying is starting, as expected.

Problem:

After each copied file Android Studio is updating indices and "scanning files to index", although the target folder is NOT within the current project. You can see this in the statusbar at the bottom of Android Studio.

It seems that this slows down the process a bit and performs unnecessary file accesses (= possibly extra data consumption = more costs on wireless connections by your phone company) and on SSD unnecessary writes.

Expectation:

Should the target folder be not within the current project, the index update has to be suppressed; it is in my sight totally obsolirrelevant and not useful.

Thank you for checking.

Best,

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