Media Bay scanning problems here (Media Bay scanning set to only scan when open).
nope, not same thing (it will still be re-scanning USER CONTENT location in the background), it’s a documented problem since V7. Steinberg confirmed that they have (crazily) ‘Designed’ it to work this way. If you have loads of USER VST presets and Track presets this is extremely annoying.
see here:
confirmed by Greggybud on 9.5 here (bottom of thread with different issue):