Err 13 messages in Mac version of avast.

Avast Mac Security
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Should I be worried about err 13 messages and what do they mean?

2

Which do the messages say? Which is the error message?

3

I have a wide variety maybe permissions issues.

.fseventsd and scan result is err 13.
.hotfiles.btree err13
.Spotlight-V100 err13
.Trashes err13
Users err13

and some others because I’m still scanning.

4

Error 13 is a normal permissions error. Avast cant scan files it does not have read access to such as certain system files and files of other users

5

so what is to be done with these err 13 files ? delete or leave there??? this program isnt very straight forward in telling you what to do…

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Well I wouldn’t recommend deleting them as these might be system files or files of other users.

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Well I wouldn't recommend deleting them as these might be system files or files of other users.

Avast! also says about err13–files like Spotlight-V100: “Does not belong to any package”.
Does that mean that they should be deleted. No other options seems to be available.

zepli
Avast! antivirus Mac Edition
Macbook Pro
OSX 10.6.7

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No, you should not delete these files labeled with err 13. The Spotlight V100 is essentially its index of the files/folders on your Mac and should not be deleted.

Err 13 is like a access denied message, normal on UNIX-Like systems such as Mac OS X. Future version of Avast for Mac will not report so many err 13 files (or so we are told).

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New version will offer human-readable messages instead, even suppressible (from prefs). It’s just about file accessibility, normal under any unix system (where user can’t do everything - including scans of some system files). That’s normal and desired behavior.

regards,
pc