> a significant inhibitor. Has something happened to CMP in the last 2-3 months
> that might have made this problem worse? It never used to be this slow w/
> uncompressed files.


Most likely it finds a very big file which it tries to calculate hashvalues for.
Try to find out at which point it gets slow....unneeded scan....scan....or try to find the file....move some files to a new folder and scan only that one.....


...and turn off virusscanners ;)


Roman Scherzer