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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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    The screenshot is missing - seems like the link is wrong. Can you post that again? Working without the screenshot can we go through a few points so I'm clear...


    1. Yep, the difference in cleanup/action on detection doesn't matter so we can gloss over that.


    2. You say you have excluded the Time Machine but it isn't shown in the scan log - as you have pointed out. Either that's the wrong scan log extract or the exclusion is wrong. Screenshot will help.  There is only one scan right?


    3. To quote: "I have unticked 'Scan inside archives and compressed files' already to speed things up". The scan log extract doesn't say that. The extract says: "Scan inside archives and compressed files: Yes" - it should say 'No' if the option was unchecked.


    4. To quote: "First, a great leap forward - the scan completed!" - so the scan now works, but what has actually changed?  Is the unmounting of the drive the change that helped? Anything else?


    5. Do you only have one scan set up that you're configuring? I just want to avoid any possibility of having a custom scan or two and mixing the running of one scan, with the settings of another and the scan log extract of a third etc.  Points 2 and 3 suggest a mismatch of scans to logs or --and perhaps more unlikely-- a problem with your installation - something I don't see on my Mac with 10.9).

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    The screenshot is missing - seems like the link is wrong. Can you post that again? Working without the screenshot can we go through a few points so I'm clear...


    1. Yep, the difference in cleanup/action on detection doesn't matter so we can gloss over that.


    2. You say you have excluded the Time Machine but it isn't shown in the scan log - as you have pointed out. Either that's the wrong scan log extract or the exclusion is wrong. Screenshot will help.  There is only one scan right?


    3. To quote: "I have unticked 'Scan inside archives and compressed files' already to speed things up". The scan log extract doesn't say that. The extract says: "Scan inside archives and compressed files: Yes" - it should say 'No' if the option was unchecked.


    4. To quote: "First, a great leap forward - the scan completed!" - so the scan now works, but what has actually changed?  Is the unmounting of the drive the change that helped? Anything else?


    5. Do you only have one scan set up that you're configuring? I just want to avoid any possibility of having a custom scan or two and mixing the running of one scan, with the settings of another and the scan log extract of a third etc.  Points 2 and 3 suggest a mismatch of scans to logs or --and perhaps more unlikely-- a problem with your installation - something I don't see on my Mac with 10.9).

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