I don't want it to "Process Album Artwork"

Every time I add audio to iTunes it says it's "Processing Album Artwork", and I don't want it to do this - there's not going to be anything in the file, and it's not going to be available on-line.
So how can I configure iTunes not to do this?

iTunes prefs -> General.
Uncheck *Automatically download missing artwork*.
there's not going to be anything in the file
There is no file unless iTunes finds artwork
*Processing Artwork* is iTunes reading the info for the tracks and then searching for the artwork.
and it's not going to be available on-line.
Why not?
There's no harm in letting to look.

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(unchecked the 'Automatically download missing album artwork' option in the 'preferences/Store' tab)
, and cleaned the 'iTunes/Album Artwork/Cache/' and 'iTunes/Album Artwork/Download/' folder.
But today I noticed that after start of iTunes, there already/again where folders/files in the 'download' folder, these takes unnecessary disk-space etc, so how can i prevent/enable this?
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