Defender not respecting exclusion list

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I am loading an app from a network drive. The app utilizes thousands of DLLs. MsMpEng is scanning every single one of them making the app unusable.I verified this with Performance analyzer for Microsoft Defender AntivirusLet's say the DLLs live at \\a\b\c\d\bin\\a\b is mapped to my D: driveI've added the following folders to the exclusion list:- D:\c\d\bin- \\a\b\c\d\bin- C:\Windows\UNC\a\b\c\d\binYet the files are still being scanned. How do I fix this?

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