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Consuming huge amounts of disk space during scan

GaryREM

Installed and started scanning a set of files. Had 92 GB free. (275,000 files being scanned).

Within 35 min, was down to 45 GB (273,000 files left). 

At 50 min, was down to 30 GB (still around 273,000 files left). File count seemed to not be going down.

Killed the scan with 22 GB and count not decreasing.

Free disk space jumped back to 92 GB.

Something is not right.

Edit: couldn't understand how there were so many files. I have aliases on my desktop (which I was scanning. Does this mean SOPHOS follows the aliases and scans them? Not good if it does.

Gary

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    Short summary: It'll scan the files those ~1700 aliases are pointing to... and each .app is an application bundle, which is a fancy name for a folder with extended attributes.  Each .app will have many files inside, especially if it's been internationalized.

    The logic behind this is that if the symbolic link/alias is available in that folder, the file is accessible to the user in that folder, therefore it should be scanned.  Symbolic links and aliases differ significantly from Microsoft Windows Shortcuts, which you would want to actually scan instead of what they link to.

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    Short summary: It'll scan the files those ~1700 aliases are pointing to... and each .app is an application bundle, which is a fancy name for a folder with extended attributes.  Each .app will have many files inside, especially if it's been internationalized.

    The logic behind this is that if the symbolic link/alias is available in that folder, the file is accessible to the user in that folder, therefore it should be scanned.  Symbolic links and aliases differ significantly from Microsoft Windows Shortcuts, which you would want to actually scan instead of what they link to.

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