scan length and sparse bundles

Avast Mac Security
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Hey, Sorry but I’m new to Avast. Running my first full scan and so far its taken 33 hrs and running. It went fairly quickly until it hit /Volumes/Data/Macintosh.sparsebundle/bands/#

How long should a full scan take? Is this normal with sparse bundle’s? Should I or should I not be scanning these?

TIA

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There is no way to tell how long a full scan takes.
There are many variables.
Some are:

  • System speed
  • Other things running
  • File sizes
  • Files compressed or not
  • Settings for the scan
    and many more.

The sparsebundle folder can be very large.
If I understood it correctly, you can remove it without causing any problems.
Perhaps removing it (or at least emptying it) before running the scan is helping.

As I am not a expert on mac’s don’t take my word for it but do some research I would say, or wait till someone else joins and help you out.

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Thanks for this!

I don’t even know what sparse bundles are… except a good rock band name…

I don’t know how to ‘empty’ them. I guess I have to do some googling…

Thanks again.