Why did tagspaces created these folders: "System Volume Information" and "$RECYCLE.BIN"?

I recently installed tagspaces and connected my first location D:

Right after doing so, I see two folders listed in tagspaces folder view as shown below:

Inside the $RECYCLE.BIN folder, there is another folder with name S-l -5-21-3384281028-213457961-3296585000-1001 and inside this folder, there are many files which I deleted long time ago from D: directory (and are currently present in windows recycle bin).

System volume information folder is empty.

These folders are NOT visible in windows file explorer.

I added another location C:\Applications_setup_I_installed and in this location, none of the two folders got created.

OS: Windows 11 23H2
Version: tagspacelite v6.5.2

TagSpaces does not create such folders →

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Oh, sorry. Should have just websearched it.

But another question: Tagspaces search give results from this “$RECYCLE.BIN” folder contents as well. Is there a way to disable this? OR the only "solution is to avoid connecting location to the root of a volume/partition?

If this is related: In settings, the following is disabled: Show files/folders with a dot(.) in front of the name (e.g. Unix, Linux, OS X hidden files)

Files and folder with . in front of the name are hidden only in Unix-like system but not in Windows.

For ignoring folders you can use this settings in the location properties: Locations Overview | TagSpaces Docs

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Thank you so much for the help!