[BetterRed]

Windows 7/10 and calibre 0.8.? to 3.31.

I make occasional use of Autoadd, I've never known it not do it's job.

Re Indexing: Because it's on a drive (D:) where everything is indexed I've always indexed the Autoadd folder. I don't like setting up exclusions without good reason - excluding D:\Calibre\Autoadd would gain me nothing (see below).

I have Indexing set to only run when the system is idle, which is the default setting. I've come across situations where users have overridden the default when the index is first/re built, and they've not set it back when indexing completes, on small systems that can result in sluggish performance.

I'm unsure if active indexing would interfere with calibre's Autoadd feature, my hunch is that it wouldn't. The indexer doesn't appear to lock the file its currently processing, and doesn't seem to care if they're already locked; if I walk away from my system it indexes files I have open in Word, which definitely locks files it has open, n.b: I have an autosave addon for Word that saves every 5 minutes.

I only use a browser to download if the site won't interoperate with my download manager. One of the features of which is: when the download ends they get explicitly AV scanned; if okay, they get moved out of Downloads to target directories based on source and type. Sometimes I set the target folder for a specific download to the calibre AutoAdd folder, in fact that's my main use of Autoadd.

And because I like its Previous Versions feature, I run Windows 10 Backup on my D: drive, again without exclusions.

BR