For years I've had a working directory containing many Pro projects with the home folder being set to the working subdirectory for each project. In the past there was ONE and only one \Index folder that Pro used for all the projects in my working directory and each Pro project had a subdirectory within \Index. Since upgrading to ver 3.2.0, Pro has begun making a new index folder for EVERY project (\<projectName>_index) at the root of the working directory, which quickly makes the working folder incredibly cluttered. I've looked around in Options for a way to tell Pro where to put the index folders without having any luck. An online search produces the info below, which implies that for some reason this is intentional:
(from How projects are indexed—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation)
The project index for each project is stored in the project's home folder in a folder named <project name>_index. This folder may contain three subfolders:
- Connections—This folder is empty.
- <Project name>—Contains the project index files.
- Thumbnail—Contains thumbnail images of maps indexed by the project index.
I would like to see the individual project index folders be, once again, stored in the <home_folder>\Index subdirectory.