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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,

    I haven't forgotten and appreciate your efforts in trying to get me working again.

    Since receiving this latest instruction, I have tried at least 4 times to run this.

    The first 3 stopped after about 3+hours at the same .dmg file - and never recovered from there.  On the forth attemp, after 86 minutes, the console froze (spinning beachball and even took a couple of minutes to respond to a force quit) but this time at a jpg file.

    As for the terminal session you said for me to keep an eye on, there are loads (too many to easily count) of 'Could not open' lines.  I have attached the text file (converted to jpg) if this could help.  Note: I'm not actually sure if the process is finished but hopefully you will still see the main issues.

    And I will be running the manualscan.log again so if there's anything you can suggest I need to do to help further, then please shout.

    Cheers

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    You seem to be doing everything right now.  You will get corrupt/encrypted files being returned in the terminal window.  So from the manualscan.log there is no consist file it has been stuck on?

    Additionally I could suggest:

    1. Disconnect (unmount) the Time Machine completely - just to completely rule it out.
    2. Close down all other applications and don't use the Mac.
    3. Run a a repair of the main drive from Disk Utility before starting a new scan.
    4. Leave the scan overnight and give it plenty of time.  Maybe leave it for 24 hours and see where it is after that.
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