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Scan Local Drives - filenames only show intermittently

nigelh

Is there any particular reason why, when doing a full scan of local drives, the window only sometimes shows the name of the file currently being examined?

Also, a couple of hints/requests for enhancements (if this is the right place to mention such things!):

1. Could the full scan progress bar be related to the total SIZE of all the files to be scanned, rather than just a count of the files, so that the progress bar woud relate more closely to the total time the scan will take?

2. Could the window also have the option to show the file hierarchy being scanned and what point in that hierarchy the scan has reached?

Regards,

Nigel

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    Hi Nigel,

    Thanks for the suggestions, all good ideas. We are looking to revamp the way we show scan progress in our next project (one after the current one) and your thoughts are really useful.

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    nigelh wrote:

    Is there any particular reason why, when doing a full scan of local drives, the window only sometimes shows the name of the file currently being examined?

    Of course it would probably be useful if I answered the question!

    The actual scanning is happening in a background process, and it shows the filenames of files that seem to "take a long time" to scan. Most of the time the filename isn't shown because it takes so little time to scan its not worth the overhead to send it from the background process to the GUI.

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    Thanks, Bob, for taking the time to answer that question. It's surprising how few software developers even acknowledge when customers have a problem or make suggestions, so you get extra kudos for being so communicative!

    I'll look forward to those interface enhancements in the fullness of time..... :-)

    Best regards

    Nigel

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