I think every file is being skipped. Here's more evidence than you ever wanted to see:
The Scan Report claims that 401,450 files were scanned in 9744 folders. I believe there are on the order of 9700 folders but, according to Retrospect, my backup program, there are not anywhere near 401 thousand files in those folders. More like 100 thousand.
I used WORD to count some things in the report file and found: “skipped” appears 220,992 times which, to me, means there are that many entries in the report. The word “exclusion” appears 358 times meaning that 358 of those 220 thousand entries were due to my explicit exclusions. I can believe several hundred files due to exclusion.
Here's an ordinary .DOC file which generates 5 entries in the skipped list:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Larry's Documents\Books to Read.doc\_1_CompObj [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Larry's Documents\Books to Read.doc\1Table [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Larry's Documents\Books to Read.doc\_5_SummaryInformation [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Larry's Documents\Books to Read.doc\WordDocument [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Larry's Documents\Books to Read.doc\_5_DocumentSummaryInformation [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
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The following is from a folder containing only 2 JPG files and a thumbs.db (hidden) file. Both JPG files were skipped and there are 7 entries for the thumbs.db file:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\General Photos\Misc document pics\Gas line inspection closeup.jpg [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\General Photos\Misc document pics\Gas line inspection.jpg [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\General Photos\Misc document pics\Thumbs.db\2 [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\General Photos\Misc document pics\Thumbs.db\1 [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\General Photos\Misc document pics\Thumbs.db\4 [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\General Photos\Misc document pics\Thumbs.db\3 [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\General Photos\Misc document pics\Thumbs.db\6 [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\General Photos\Misc document pics\Thumbs.db\5 [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Pictures\General Photos\Misc document pics\Thumbs.db\Catalog [E] File was skipped because of scanner settings. (42016)
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Some file types, like MP3 files, although skipped only generate 1 entry in the report.
I haven't found a file that was not skipped.
This looks real bad to me. I'm doing a Standard Scan Level.
--Larry