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Number of files to interrogate

RCully

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.

Cheers

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    Ruckus,

    Thanks for the detailed response - and the video which helped explain exactly what you were recommending.

    Whilst I do have my Time Machine drive excluded from the scans, I thought this may be the problem area.  So, what I did was to stop the TM backups and scan again.  But my hopes were short lived as the scan still shows way in excess of 2 million files where Finder shows less than a million.

    By the way, I have never had a successful completed scan since installing Mavericks (and having the number of files mysteriously increased as explained above).  But that is another topic where there are many other threads suggesting I'm not the only one.

    :1014383
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    Ruckus,

    Thanks for the detailed response - and the video which helped explain exactly what you were recommending.

    Whilst I do have my Time Machine drive excluded from the scans, I thought this may be the problem area.  So, what I did was to stop the TM backups and scan again.  But my hopes were short lived as the scan still shows way in excess of 2 million files where Finder shows less than a million.

    By the way, I have never had a successful completed scan since installing Mavericks (and having the number of files mysteriously increased as explained above).  But that is another topic where there are many other threads suggesting I'm not the only one.

    :1014383
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