diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index eccdb9d..04d0d96 100755
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -562,7 +562,8 @@ def list_directory_contents(directory, subpath):
                     continue
 
                 if entry.is_dir(follow_symlinks=False):
-                    if entry.name in ["Transkription", "@eaDir", ".ai"]:
+                    # skip system/hidden helper folders
+                    if entry.name in ["Transkription", "@eaDir", ".app", "#recycle"]:
                         continue
                     rel_path = os.path.join(subpath, entry.name) if subpath else entry.name
                     
diff --git a/index_for_search.py b/index_for_search.py
index a5c0cb5..269b552 100755
--- a/index_for_search.py
+++ b/index_for_search.py
@@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ def log_structure(root_path, max_depth=None, show_files=False):
                 entries = sorted(it, key=lambda e: (not e.is_dir(follow_symlinks=False), e.name.lower()))
                 for entry in entries:
                     if entry.is_dir(follow_symlinks=False):
-                        if entry.name.startswith(('.', '@', '#')):
+                        if entry.name.startswith(('.')):
                             continue
-                        if entry.name.lower() in {"transkription"}:
+                        if entry.name in {"Transkription", "@eaDir", ".app", "#recycle"}:
                             continue
                         indent = "  " * (depth - 1)
                         log(f"{indent}- {entry.name}/")
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ def updatefileindex():
             log(f"Processing folder: {foldername}")
             raw_folderpath = folder.get("folderpath")
             norm_folderpath = os.path.normpath(raw_folderpath)
-            log_structure(norm_folderpath, max_depth=None, show_files=False)
+            # Only log folder names up to 3 levels deep; suppress filenames
+            log_structure(norm_folderpath, max_depth=3, show_files=False)
             # Precompute the length of the base folder path (plus one for the separator)
             base_len = len(norm_folderpath) + 1
             # Prefetch hit counts for this basefolder to avoid per-file queries
@@ -210,6 +211,12 @@ def updatefileindex():
             for d, files in dir_files.items():
                 log_directory_batch(d, files)
 
+            # Progress indicator
+            dir_count = len(dir_files)
+            file_count = len(scanned_files)
+            log(f"Found {dir_count} folders and {file_count} files in '{foldername}'.")
+            log("updating database...")
+
             # Remove database entries for files under this base folder that are no longer on disk.
             pattern = foldername + os.sep + '%'
             cursor.execute("SELECT id, relative_path, filename FROM files WHERE relative_path LIKE ?", (pattern,))