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Why does it stop scanning for extended periods?

RobLewis

I started SAV on "Scan Local Drives" this morning (it's late afternoon now) and so far it's scanned less than 8% of my 5 million files. Oddly, it seems to just stop scanning for extended periods: the "Items Remaining" counter stops decrementing and nothing happens for several minutes. Then it starts up again. 

At this rate, it's going to take days to complete a scan, and meanwhile my system is rather sluggish. I don't even know if it's worth waiting for it to finish. 

Anyone else seen this? 

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    Thanks for clarifying that. In my case, the progress bar continues to pulse even when it's apparently stalled (like right now: it's been stuck on one number for several minutes). 

    2 UI comments: 

    1. If the name of the current file was displayed in the progress window, I might not have thought there was anything wrong. Why not do it? 

    2. For .dmg and other archives, how about something like this: a small "secondary" progress bar appears, maybe below the main one, and shows the progress with scanning within the archive. DiskWarrior does something kind of similar to this. 

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    Thanks for clarifying that. In my case, the progress bar continues to pulse even when it's apparently stalled (like right now: it's been stuck on one number for several minutes). 

    2 UI comments: 

    1. If the name of the current file was displayed in the progress window, I might not have thought there was anything wrong. Why not do it? 

    2. For .dmg and other archives, how about something like this: a small "secondary" progress bar appears, maybe below the main one, and shows the progress with scanning within the archive. DiskWarrior does something kind of similar to this. 

    :1001675
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