FAQ & Knowledge Base | JAM Software

After searching for a file type is there a way to move the files found to a new directory without maintaining the old directory structure?

Yes. When using the "Move Checked" feature of the file search, there is an option that allows you to decide whether or not the directory sturcture will be preserved.

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How do I know what files or folders I need to keep and what I can delete?

Since we do not know which files you have on your disk and also do not know which files you, your colleagues or family members might be interested to keep, we cannot give you any concrete advice here, unfortunately.

In general, some files are needed by certain applications and should not be deleted because otherwise those applications might not work as expected anymore. Fortunately, those files are usually located in a directory with the name of such a program. It is also not recommended to delete files of the operation system that are located in C:\Windows.

The results of the TreeSize Temporary File Search and the Browser Cache Files are quite safe to delete. If you delete files and are unsure, only delete the files in question to the recycle bin or move them to a different path from where you can recover them again a few days after you deleted them.

The "Move Files" feature of the TreeSize File Search and the TreeSize "Details" list makes this easy.

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How can i combine scan history from two different users into one?

Let the first user export his history through "History > Manage history data > Export to file". The second user then can import this file through "History > Manage history data > Import from file", the data will get merged.

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Is there any way to combine scans into one logical scan? For example, I would like to group C: and D: together for charts and reports. Kind of like a "Level 0 ".

Yes, please use "Tools > Group all scans in a virtual root".

It is also possible to right-click one of the scans and click on "Add/remove from grouped scans".

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TreeSize works great in finding thousands of duplicate files, but how can I select the subset I want to delete other than one at a time?

If you want to keep the newest file of every group only, you can select "Check all but newest" from the "Duplicate Files" tab in the ribbon menu. In addition to that, the dropdown selection offers a large variety of additonal options to custom select files.

If you want to choose for each group of files individually which one to preserve, you obviously need to do this one by one.

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I would like to use the file search to list all files in a folder called ARCHIVE, which (together with folder name) have a length of over 240 characters.

You can achieve this by using the custom search. Add the pattern *\Archive\*.* to the file name patterns (as the only one which is checked) and on the "Size Attributes" tab set "Full path longer than" to 240. After checking the drives to search in the panel at the top of the search, hit "Start".

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Can Treesize Professional search by groups of machines? I want to be able to search multiple unc paths without adding every one of them individually.

You can search all shares of a remote machine by entering the unc path of the machine only, e.g \\machinename. You can search all shares of all members of a domain by entering the UNC path of the domain, e.g. \\domainnane.

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Is it possible to export a full list of the files on a disk, including owner?

There are 3 options to achieve this:

For the export in question, enable the option "Tools > Options > Export > [Export Type] > Exported Elements > Include single files in export" and perform the export using "File > Export".
You may use our free command line tool "FileList: https://www.jam-software.com/filelist/
You may use the TreeSize File Search and perform a custom search that matches all files by using the pattern "*". Using "File > Export" you can export the result list in various formats.
You scan the path with the TreeSize main module and then chose "File > Export > Copy list of files".

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How can I script TreeSize to run automatically?

Please open the help file and see the chapter "Schedule TreeSize Tasks".

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I have a command-line scheduled task running a custom search for several department drives. When manually running I can choose what columns to export to the .CSV file. However, in the command-line, I don 't see a way to do this. Currently, my search options are being read from the saved .XML file settings.

By default TreeSize will use the columns that have been set under "Tools > Options > Export" when it was used the last time. To force the columns on the command line, export your current options through "Tools > Options > Export" to a file and supply this config file on the command line using the command line option /OPTIONS .

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