aboutcode-org / aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit

"Some files failed to scan properly" error for some large files

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I was running the scan on a batch of Binary files (.bin) and got the error "Some files failed to scan properly". When I saw which were the files, I noticed its failed on Large files (> 450 MB). While the smaller files scanned without any issues.

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