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#1
Quote from: zsolt on October 27, 2016, 02:15:27 PMbut it is a surprise to me that it does not scan mounted volumes.

I suspected it is because the primary sparse bundle and resulting mounted volume has a lot of "stuff" in it like videos proving JFK was brought back in time to assassinate himself and where Hillary Clinton buried Paul McCartney's body  :-X ~120 GB

Since others have smaller files like scans of receipts and the like, it does not take Sophos any time to freshly scan ~1.12 MB and ~35 MB volumes! No idea why Sophos is doing this now so slowly and what Sierra has to do with it.  :o

SO:

People with the same problem should try excluding just the "Data" file--which will include the sparse bundle contents--first and see if that corrects slow-down caused by anti-virus software. If that does not work, then exclude the mounted volumes as well.

Might work as a "FAQ" though with less words.  :-X

--J.D.
#2
You can still Secure Delete on regular magnetic disk drives with third party maintenance software. A free version  8) --Onyx--is one such one which gives the option under Cleaning > Trash.

It will warn you not to Secure Delete with "solid-state or a Fusion Drive."
#3
Espionage 3 / Re: SOLVED
October 27, 2016, 01:07:42 AM
First /dev/disk2s2  was the disk I should have used Terminal to unmount. In the below, Espionage would not unmount so I used the Terminal command.

Completely Solved

From my running commentary:

QuoteTurning off Sophos through its webpage after Reboot and Espionage mounts immediately. Unmount, turn on Sophos . . . "Critical Alert! Failed to unlock 'Stuff'. Failed to mount disk image, error!"

I will delete the rest and get to the solution.

Here are the two files I excluded from Sophos:

/Users/DoctorX/Library/Application Support/com.taoeffect.Espionage3/Data/

/Users/DoctorX/Pictures/Stuff/


Reboot . . . voila! Espionage mounts/unmounts quickly as before!

The FIRST path is probably the critical one. I have more than one file encrypted, and the other files mount quickly as well. So I suspect one needs to simply prevent an anti-virus from scanning the first path. If the file has a lot of data in it, I would suggest blocking it as well to prevent the anti-virus from scanning it after it is mounted.


Thanks for all of the help, especially since this is not a problem on Espionage's end!  :)

--J.D.
#4
I will do that in a few hours--need to work on a few things before I can reboot  :-X--but I will post the results!

--J.D.
#5
Okay . . . now to try it again after reboot . . .





So it is slow but it did mount.

I do use Sophos--never been a problem before--I was going to post the Gibberish that is Console but only notice Sophos in the lines and lines of text.

Unmounting and remounting then happens immediately. So in the future--barring issues--I will simply allow it to mount than unmount on a reboot.

--J.D.

P.S. And you just posted. Per your questions:

Quote- do you have a virus scanner

Yes, Sophos, had not been a problem before.

Quote- does the folder in Espionage unlock quickly (obviously not, that much I understood), if it eventually unlocks, if you lock and unlock again, does it work better? Can you try it few times?

Yes to all of that. I can now lock/unlock very quickly.

Quote- if you reboot, does it again face delay between unlock?

Yes. Then as above.

Quote- what about hdiutil, does that work quickly (after reboot, if this is the reboot which makes the delay appear)

I tried it once and it worked immediately. I probably typed the command wrong to relock--I did not realize it should be "hdiutil unmount" rather than just "unmount."

Once mounted I can access everything. I will even load a "big video"--opens and plays quickly.

--J.D.
#6
Right, let us see if I can "mount" the usual way.

Waiting . . .

Waiting . . .



Still not mounting after two minutes--far longer than ever. So let us try your suggestions . . . and now it just "Unlocked"

Cool . . . everything is there . . . so let us relock it and try your suggestions. I stress that this current delay is FAR longer than when I first bitched about it.

Following your directions I get:

Enter disk image passphrase:
/dev/disk2          GUID_partition_scheme         
/dev/disk2s1        EFI                           
/dev/disk2s2        Apple_HFS                      /Users/DoctorX/Pictures/Stuff


THAT happened immediately. The held open Espionage page now shows it "mounted."

The final command will not unmount it--probably putting in the wrong volume--but Espionage does unmount it.

For fun when I try to remount it through Espionage it immediately remounts.

So I will watch it. I have my Int-HD clones in El Capitan and new data is simply a few things I will copy over the clone. So if all else fails I will simply mount from my Ex-HD clone and go back to El Capitan until Apple sorts it out.

I will try a reboot to see if things are the same, better, what have you.

--J.D.



#7
I suspect the issue is an Apple and Sierra one, but just now I could not get Espionage to mount a folder/sparse image. Clicking on the "i" sign would only allow viewing the location of the folder--not the actual "sparse" image.

Force Quit of Espionage then restart resulted in allowing the option on "i" to "mount" which then resulted in a "major error."

Trying a Reboot.

That allows the Proper view of "i" I think you want:

Since I cannot "see" the attachment, I will post this and then continue.

--J.D.

#8
Espionage 3 / Re: SLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW Mounting
October 26, 2016, 02:10:26 AM
Sorry to "hijack" but I think this may be a part of the problem. Trying out Sierra OS 10.12 on:

    1. Macbook Late 2011
    2. 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
    3. 16 GB RAM
    4. Espionage 3.6.6 freshly downloaded
    5. 1TB Internal Hybrid SD
    6. Shoe Size 11 1/2

Espionage mounts on the Internal HD. ALL data is backed up on two Ex-HD so there is no danger of loss.

Right, I notice it takes a long time for the encrypted sparse bundle disk image to load and, then, Finder will sloooooowww down trying to access it. Usually, on El Capitan and previous, you just click on the folder and there you go. Also noticed that some files like video will slowly play, if at all, crashing QuickTime 7.

Understood if this is "normal" with a relatively new OS. Just wondering if there is something I should do or if you need further information?  8)

--J.D.
#9
Hopefully this will help people.

Happily updated Espionage, everything working, then one day when I tried to open my folder I got the page you see. More experienced users will note that this looks exactly like an unlocked Espionage when you enter nothing in the search space and search for it. When you go to the *V in the corner you get what you see in the next picture: "Lock Espionage." Do that . . . you enter your password . . . FAIL!!!

Now I clone my drive on more than one Ext-HD. I recommend this highly. My more RECENT clone had the same problem--boot to it . . . same failure. But another clone older than that . . . no problem! So the password is correct.

After working with Zsolt here is the solution.

1. Make sure you Clone/backup what you have. So whatever you do, you do not lose data.
2. Ultimately there is a problem with the Database file--see picture.
3. IF you have a working clone--from a back up--rename the Database file to something like: database3-original
4. Bring over database3 from your clone.
5. Voila!
5. IF you do NOT have a working clone go to the last picture and open the Backups folder. There you will find a ton of back up databases. Try using them

--J.D.
#10
Espionage 3 / Re: newby - external drive
December 07, 2014, 09:44:39 PM
I was lurking for another reason, but maybe this will help if I understand your question.

When I Clone my Internal HD with a program that makes the clone on an External HD bootable--I use SuperDuper! but I have been told Carbon Copy Cloner and now TimeMachine will do that--it clones everything so my Espionage folders are copied as well. So if I boot from the clone, everything is safe. If I connect to the clone as a regular Ext-HD and try to "find" my files, I get an empty file.

Not sure if that helps you. You can also just encrypt your Ext-HD. Something I recommend. Now if you want to encrypt an Ext-HD AND have on it a file protected by Espionage--so if you are forced to give up your password to the Ext-HD your file is still protected, I leave that to one of the Gurus to explain how to do that.  :P