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How to scan only certain folders

nodis

Apologies for what may be a dumb question, but I've searched through he FAQs and this forum and can't find the answer.

My question: it's obvious how to exclude certain folders from on-access scanning, but how do I flip that on its head and INCLUDE only certain folders and NOT scan the rest?

Specifically, I would like to run on-access scanning ONLY on my Apple Mail directory (~/Library/Mail), Desktop (~/Desktop), and downloads folder (~/Downloads).  I want to NOT scan everything else.

How do I do that?  Thanks in advance.

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    ...you can easily do this by ... may sound easy to someone that is a tech person, but pages of "easily do this..." answers would be : 1) you want to do this; 2) do this. :-)

    I have spent nine months on and off attempting to get a full scan with a MacMini and MacBookPro, both using El Capitan. Sophos worked for many years with no problem until I upgraded. I have spent 3 days now uninstalling, installing SOPHOS Home and I hang at the same place. I have excluded .dmg as this was a possible fix last year. I spent 3 hrs yesterday moving folders/files from download to trash in an attempt to find what is hanging the system (it will run for over 24 hours and I give up). I can only stop SOPHOS completely thru a reboot.

    So, what is the "Easy" way to get sophos to run a full scan?
    And what is the "Easy" way to exclude TRASH as I don't want to empty it yet.

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    ...you can easily do this by ... may sound easy to someone that is a tech person, but pages of "easily do this..." answers would be : 1) you want to do this; 2) do this. :-)

    I have spent nine months on and off attempting to get a full scan with a MacMini and MacBookPro, both using El Capitan. Sophos worked for many years with no problem until I upgraded. I have spent 3 days now uninstalling, installing SOPHOS Home and I hang at the same place. I have excluded .dmg as this was a possible fix last year. I spent 3 hrs yesterday moving folders/files from download to trash in an attempt to find what is hanging the system (it will run for over 24 hours and I give up). I can only stop SOPHOS completely thru a reboot.

    So, what is the "Easy" way to get sophos to run a full scan?
    And what is the "Easy" way to exclude TRASH as I don't want to empty it yet.

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