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Antivirus Exclusions
TheinformationonthispageisdesignedtoassistITmanagersandITprofessionalsdecidewhatanti-
virusstrategytofollowwithconsiderationtoPrintShopMailandtheirinternalrequirementsandneeds.
ThispagedescribesthemodeofoperationandthefilesandfoldersusedbyPrintShopMailaswellas
thefiles,foldersandexecutablesthatarerecommendedtobeignoredforbestpossibleperformance
andtoavoidissuescausedbyantivirusfilelocks.
ITmanagersandITprofessionalsthenmaydecidetheanti-virusstrategytofollowfortheirinternal
requirementsandneedsdependingonthestatementsoutlinedherein.
Directoriesandfolders
AllConnectapplicationsareinstalledunderanarbitrarilyselectablemainfolder.Ifthedefaultinstall-
ationfolderoptionswereused,thisinstallationfolderwouldbe%PROGRAMFILES%\Objectif Lun-
e\OL Connect.
Theinstallationfolderwillholdalltheexecutablefilesandotherfilesandfoldersrequiredfortheoper-
ationofthewholeproductsuite.Allthesefilesandfoldersremainstaticafterinstallation.Itdepends
uponthecompanyvirusprotectionstrategy,ifsuchfilesandfolderswillbemonitoredornot.
Wedo,however,recommendthatthefollowingfileorfoldersbeexcludedfromantivirusprotection.
Working folders
WorkingfoldersforConnectarecreatedandusedonaper-user-basisundertherespectiveuser'spro-
filefolder,accessibleonWindowswiththestandardizedsystemvariable%USERPROFILE%inthesub-
folder"Connect".Workingfoldersare:
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%USERPROFILE%\Connect\filestore:Thisfolderwillholdnon-intermediatefilesforthe
operationofConnect.Filesinthisfolderwillbeusedfrequently,butnotwithahighfrequency.
Supervisingthisfolderwithavirusprotectionsystemshouldnothavetoomuchofanimpacton
thespeedofthewholeConnectsuite.
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%USERPROFILE%\Connect\logs:Asthenameimplies,logfilesarecreatedandupdatedhere.
Theselogfilesareplaintextfiles.Virusprotectionmayhaveanimpactonthespeedofthewhole
Connectsuite.
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%USERPROFILE%\Connect\temp:Storagefolderfortemporarydata,usuallyintermittentfiles
inmultiplefolders.Virusprotectiononthisfolderanditssubfoldersmayhaveaseriousimpacton
theperformanceofConnect.
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%USERPROFILE%\Connect\workspace:Usuallycontainingsettingsandhelperfilesand
folders.Supervisingthisfolderwithavirusprotectionsystemshouldnothavetoomuchofan
impactonthespeedofthewholeConnectsuite.
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