diff --git a/contrib/scripts/sensitive_strings.py b/contrib/scripts/sensitive_strings.py
index 75e25e0b6..e28f83631 100644
--- a/contrib/scripts/sensitive_strings.py
+++ b/contrib/scripts/sensitive_strings.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ def _is_binary_file(self, file_path: str, file_name_ext: str):
         ext = ext.lower()
         if ext == ".ipynb":
             is_binary_file = True
-        if self._is_img_ext(ext):
+        elif self._is_img_ext(ext):
             if ext in self._text_file_extensions:
                 is_binary_file = False
             elif (f"{file_path}/{file_name_ext}" in self._text_file_path_name_exts) or (
@@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ def _is_binary_file(self, file_path: str, file_name_ext: str):
                 is_binary_file = False
             else:
                 is_binary_file = True
+        elif ft.file_size(ft.join(file_path, file_name_ext)) > 1e6:
+            # assume any file > 1MB is a binary file, in order to prevent
+            # sensitive_strings from taking hours to check these files
+            # needlessly
+            is_binary_file = True
         if not is_binary_file:
             # attempt to parse the file as a text file
             try:
diff --git a/opencsp/__init__.py b/opencsp/__init__.py
index 2c8c5ba0a..b77adbc7f 100644
--- a/opencsp/__init__.py
+++ b/opencsp/__init__.py
@@ -66,8 +66,4 @@ def _opencsp_settings_dirs() -> list[str]:
 opencsp_settings = configparser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)
 opencsp_settings.read(_settings_files)
 
-for section in opencsp_settings.sections():
-    for key in opencsp_settings[section]:
-        print(f"opencsp_settings[{section}][{key}]={opencsp_settings[section][key]}")
-
 __all__ = ['opencsp_settings']