project files changed notification every 5 minutes Follow

..making it extremely hard to get any work done and I can't find an option for telling it to shut the hell up and let me get on with my work.

Notice is something along the lines of

"project file ../../.idea/workspace.xml has been changed externally. it is recommended you RELOAD the project". With a tickbox. Even if I reload, it continuously comes up.

I've added .idea/ directory to my ignored files and it even shows in the settings under ignored files.

please help me remove this message for good.