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Sophos Antivirus question on disk usage

jim80z

All,

I have just installed your Mac Antivirus product. I was running scans on my machines internal hard disks (except the bootcamp disk) see below for config. Every now and then it looked like Sophos would take its time on a large file (a gut feel) on the raid pair which I use for video editing storage (so there are a few large files). While it is handling the large file, it looks like Sophos starts to chew up a large amount of storage on my boot drive (boot disk normal space used = 57GB, when sophos is handling a large file it can climb to ~150GB used) and once it gets over the file its scanning it releases the space on the boot disk.

Is this normal? Anyway of stopping it, maybe a setting? What happens if the boot drive fills up?

Thanks

Jim

Config : Mac Pro (late 2010) 12 cores 2.9GHz, 48GB Memory, Boot Disk 200GB SSD, Data Volume 2 x 2TB Caviar Black in Raid 0, 1 x 1TB for BootCamp etc etc

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    Agile,

    Good to know. So really after the first full scan I can switch it off unless I do anything with the archives of add any new archives (but this will be scanned by the realtime scanner anyway). 

    Thanks, good outcome.

    :1002331
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    Agile,

    Good to know. So really after the first full scan I can switch it off unless I do anything with the archives of add any new archives (but this will be scanned by the realtime scanner anyway). 

    Thanks, good outcome.

    :1002331
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