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Scan stuck on dslocal-backup.xar. Yes I am only scanning my hard drive and no Time Machine.

TonyPolitano

Happened both on Yosemite and again last night on El Capitan.  Scanning Hard Drive Only (about 2.1M files).  Finds a file dslocal-backup.xar and hangs (8 hours + on both Yosemite and El Capitan).  File is not large 896K and in directory /private/var/db/.  If I exclude this directory, there is a bunch of stuff that I would miss.  Suggestions?



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    I can't see from the logs where the scan is stopping in my case. All I see is that there are a few corrupt files that the scan sees. These do not appear to stop the scan. Very tiresome to have to run the scan while sitting at the computer. This sort of thing should run quietly in the background at night and just do its thing!
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    I can't see from the logs where the scan is stopping in my case. All I see is that there are a few corrupt files that the scan sees. These do not appear to stop the scan. Very tiresome to have to run the scan while sitting at the computer. This sort of thing should run quietly in the background at night and just do its thing!
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    Hi Stentorian,

    If you want to add a scheduled scan (to run, at say, midnight every night) you can definitely do that.

    1. Click the Sophos shield > Open Scans...
    2. Alt-Click the white space around "scan this mac" > select "Scan settings"
    3. Click on the 'schedule' tab > check "enable schedule"
    4. Configure schedule as desired

    Also, from the same menu, you can select "View Scan Log" which should give you more details about where your scans are getting stuck.
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