Additional KNIME files that block syncing to OneDrive

Hi all!

Our company is fairly new to using KNIME. But so far, we are loving it!

One thing that we noticed is the following. We use OneDrive to sync our files to Sharepoint so everyone can access on work on everything and keep it as backup.

What we see with KNIME is that small files are constantly created and synced to the OneDrive making our laptops insanely slow and keeping the OneDrive constantly busy, which makes syncing very difficult.

I attached a screenshot of the files OneDrive is trying to sync in the last 10 minutes of opening, keeping KNIME open for 10 minutes, and closing it again.

I see weird files like gmail files and savedwithdata files and other (junk?) files that are around 10 kb large.

I checked if these files are KNIME files, and they are. They are placed in a .plugins folder in the main workspace folder.

For every different workspace that is opened by a collegue, these files are again created and again need to be synced every minute of the day.

What can be done to fix this?