diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f495d67cb..48633bd52 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /SbtTemplateProject.scala
 target
 /project/boot
+/project/metals.sbt
+/.metals
 /project/plugins
 lib_managed
 src_managed
diff --git a/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat b/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat
index 58707d340..2f09cfdd6 100755
--- a/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat
+++ b/src/universal/bin/sbt.bat
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ if /I !JAVA_VERSION! GEQ 8 (
   if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (
     if not exist !PRELOAD_SBT_JAR! (
       if exist "!SBT_HOME!\lib\local-preloaded\" (
-        robocopy "!SBT_HOME!\lib\local-preloaded" "%UserProfile%\.sbt\preloaded" /E
+        robocopy "!SBT_HOME!\lib\local-preloaded" "%UserProfile%\.sbt\preloaded" /E >nul 2>nul
       )
     )
   )