NAV 2006 gives new meaning to slow!

[Odyssey]

I have just upgraded to NAV 2006 and it insists on doing an initial scan, which is fine. However it started on Monday and is still chugging away on Thursday.

It is now on file 356,841 and I noticed that it really bogged down on zip files (even though I attempted to exclude zip files).

What is the problem here and is there an easy cure beside uninstalling and going back to the earlier version? TIA

 

[bygeek]

There's no way it sould take more than an hour or two unless you have an enormous amount of stuff on your drive(s). How large are the drives and how much free space do you have? It sounds like either you have little space left for a swap file, or you are highly fragmented, or your hard drive is going bad.

Also what is your CPU speed, Ram, and o/s?

 

[Odyssey]

In gigabytes:

C: 37.2/10.2 (total/free)
G: 4.87/3.88
H: 110/10.8

Accordint to Folder & Tree Size, each of the above has the following number of "objects" (which I assume are files, thought this is inconsistent to the pop that NAV is showing):

C: 102,847
G: 3,218
H: 70.390

Not sure if this is helpful, but please tell me what you think.

 

[Odyssey]

Sorry, forgot the second part. It is a Dell 4600 with 584MB RAM and XP Home.

 

[bygeek]

Most people don't have 127gb of data to scan, so it will take a while. I'd suggest defragging and a thorough scandisk on each drive, then try it again. You also may want to try it in safe mode so you won't have other processes running that consume resources.

 

[Odyssey]

Thanks for this excellent suggestion. Will try in safe mode.