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Hughmoz1

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I downloaded Sophos last Friday and installed it on two computers:  a 24-inch imac with about 3.5 million files, and a Macbook Pro with about 500,000 files.  The scan of the Macbook Pro was quite fast ... certainly no more than 1/2 hour.  The scan of the iMac is only now about half complete, after 3 days.  I am wondering if this is normal.

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    Are there loads of files on there?  Large files?  External hard drive etc?  All these things can make the scan time increase.  Or it could be one file the scanner is fussing over.  Or even the computer is trying to do something else while the scan is goind on.

    Stop the current scan and try to break down the scan while also seeing if there a a folder/file(s) that it's getting stuck on.  From a terminal run this...

    sweep /Users/diz/ -dn 2> ~/Desktop/manualscan.txt

     ...where 'diz' is your username.

    SAV (or 'sweep' the command line version) will do a 'nornal' or 'quick' scan of your home folder and sub folders.  In the terminal you'll see the normal output so you can see (a) the scan has started and is working and (b) when it has finished.  However the '2> ' pipes the standard error to a text file on your desktop (in this case a file list with a seconds from the start of the scan).  On a short scan of my desktop it doesn't show much...

    00:08 .DS_Store
00:08 .localized
00:08 manualscan.txt
00:08 savosx80sa.dmg
00:08 savosx_80_he.10.8+.dmg
00:08 savosx_80_he.dmg      
00:08 video.mp4

    ...but on a longer scan it may help you identify a problematic file (some files to cause the scanner to grind to a (near) halt).  If the home folder looks good you can open up to the whole '/Users' folder and then to the root of the hard drive '/').

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    Can you or "Diz" help me.  I'm having the same problem -- Sophos get stuck at about the 20% mark.  All the explanations are gobbledy **bleep** to me.  I don't understand what to do to get it back to scanning the rest of my files and folders. I guess it's a matter of you get what you pay for.  This was the free home version of Sophos that I downloaded.  Now I don't know what to do.

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    @hatual: Answered your other post.

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