V 6.40 Even when sending files to my device (save to disk), I found that my A/V was being hit heavily
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I had excluded the Device drives (I locked the letters, and verified they were still correct).
I excluded the library.
I (unhappily, excluded a live program) C:... /calibre2
No Joy
Calibre is using other file-space somewhere that triggers a real time scan of it'sactivity.
Disabling A/V was the only thing that dropped the usage and really improved performance.