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When I look in finder, it indicates that my iMac as circa 950,000 files.
When Sophos starts scanning, it shows that it has calculated circa 2,100,000 files.
I have excluded any external drives so can anyone please tell me why this scan number is so high?
By the way, I have Mavericks running and also the latest version of Sophos.
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Finder is probably only picking up on the main HD where as the scan locates all local volumes - everything under /Volumes/. Example:
If I look in Disk Utility it says I have ~500k of files on the main drive and without TM mounted when I start a scan the SAV GUI is about right. When I plug in my Time Machine DU counts the files per drive so I have to add the main HD to the TM drive. The TM drive has about 500k of files too. If I run a scan with SAV with the TM mounted I see about 1 million files, so it's correct. Example:
Finder is probably only picking up on the main HD where as the scan locates all local volumes - everything under /Volumes/. Example:
If I look in Disk Utility it says I have ~500k of files on the main drive and without TM mounted when I start a scan the SAV GUI is about right. When I plug in my Time Machine DU counts the files per drive so I have to add the main HD to the TM drive. The TM drive has about 500k of files too. If I run a scan with SAV with the TM mounted I see about 1 million files, so it's correct. Example:
