eEye Digital Security

I do alot of pro photo work... thus I have tons of images and move them around alot... thus I have a NAS to store these piles of mess on...

Over the past few days of my "vacation" I have decided it is time to redo the way i deal with photos.... thus I need to make some massive moved of 1000's of images both off my NAS to my local computer and from folder to folder on the NAS - both replacing and copying over images on the NAS..

Here is where the problems start..

Upon trying to copy over files on the NAS - as in NAS to NAS copies and replacements I get an error that tells me the file is in use...this is so anoying I cannot tell you as if you drag a folder with 1000 images this error could pop up at different points of the copy at least once every 30-100 images it copies..

So knowing I am running BLINK and it is probably trying to be smarter than me - I say what the heck and shut it down for a few to see if the errors abate... guess what.... after shutting down BLINK the problems are gone and I can now start taping all my hair back on my now bald head...

So what is the deal - is BLINK sandboxing files and thus slower down the transfer and making windows think the file is in use?

And how do i stop it while still trying to protect myself with BLINK....?

Ideas?

Have we talked about this before and I just missed it? 

Brent,

Just my 2 cents, but I betcha it's Blink's anti-virus module scanning each file as it's moved between drives. I suspect that a simple copy/move within the same partition would probably not qualify as an "open" event triggering Blink's A-V scanning since only the FAT or MFT tables are actually affected.

However a move between drives requires that the file(s) actually be copied byte-for-byte from one partition to another including the FAT/MFT updates. This would certainly trigger the A-V scan.

Try right-clicking Blink's tray icon and select <Protecton><Disable Firewall Protection> during your file rearrangement. I don't think any other of Blink's modules will slow the process down, but scanning 100s/1000's of files would. Be sure to leave Blinks dialog onscreen so yo won't forget to re-enable the A-V module when done.

 HTH

George

Do you not mean disable AV - not firewall.... I actually tried this and not until I actually disabled the entire app did the issue see to clear up... which of course is bad....

Brent,

Yep, my bad. I meant to say <Disable Virus and Spyware Protection>. I'm surprised to hear that it didn't work though. I've found it to help (or at least I *thought* it did!) for my disk image backups and defragging runs.

Hopefully someone from Eeye will drop by with better insight.

George

Ok - well to re-revise my revision... yes it does help - I need to try just unchecking sandboxing on the scan options to see if maybe that is all I need to worry about - sadly I think if sandboxing is the problem I hate to have to disable a cool feature like sandboxing just to copy files..

But on another note... this is happening on a NAS to NAS transfer / copy....