Allow to disable local disk indexing in configSetting file for ArcGIS Pro 3.3 and up

[AntheaTung]

Hi,

We have been using ArcGIS Pro 2.7 and 2.9 for the past five years.  We find the ArcGIS Pro indexing default settings (which automatically creates an ArcGIS Pro Indexing Task Scheduler job) slows down our environment.  We work with the UN data and they are fairly large.  We have used the configsSetting file to disable indexing for ArcGIS Pro 2.x and this works good for us. 

We are in the midst of upgrading to ArcGIS Pro 3.3, and it introduces new indexing.  There is new local disk indexing option in ArcGIS Pro 3.3 and the configsSetting does not allow to disable the Local Disk indexing.  In ArcGIS Pro 3.3 automatically creates the ArcGIS Pro Indexing job by default.  Our users download the ArcGIS Pro Project package from Portal to their machine's local C drive.  The re-indexing job will run and thus will slow down our users on their machines.

We would like an enhancement to add the option to disable the local disk indexing using the ConfigsSetting file in ArcGIS Pro 3.3.  

[TimOrmsby]

Hi Anthea,

Changes to indexing UI and functionality were made at the 3.2 release, but the setting to turn off indexing in the Pro.settingsConfig file didn't change. This is the file you mean, right? It still works as expected according to our testing on a 3.3 software version.

<Catalog> <EnableIndexing isLocked="true">false</EnableIndexing> </Catalog>

If it doesn't work for you, are you able to open a case with Esri Support and have them troubleshoot the problem?

Tim