| Q: | How can I search for files of the type XYZ? |
| A: | You can use the custom search type of the TreeSize Professional File Search. Another possibility: Set a filter in the Options dialog of the main application. Then TreeSize Professional will only include matching files when calculating the folder sizes. The results will provide a good overview of the distribution of these file type(s) and can be exported to a text file using the context menu. Our product SpaceObServer, which keeps the data of watched file system trees in an SQL database, has faster and more flexible search and report features. |
| Q: | Is it possible to check several or all files in the File Search window at one time instead of checking them individually? |
| A: | You may select several files using a left mouse click while holding the <Shift>- or <Ctrl>-key down. You may also press <Ctrl+A> to select all files in the list. Using "Check" from the context menu then checks all currently selected files. Some successive files can also be easily checked by pressing the space bar several times. The space bar checks the currently focused file and advances to the next file in the list. |
| Q: | Which files can I safely delete? |
| A: | Unfortunately there is no short and easy answer to this question because usually one cannot know where a file came from and what it is used for. Generally temporary files and cache files of the internet browsers can nearly always be deleted safely. Besides deleting files, the file search of TreeSize Professional offers you to move files to a different drive or to a compressed ZIP file which can then be archived. That way files that are still needed can be easily restored. |
| Q: | Does TreeSize Professional have the capability to delete files in specified directories over a certain age and if so, can this be scheduled? |
A: TreeSize Professional can search, report and delete files over a certain age in its File Search using the "Oldest Files" search type or the custom search type. Check the files you want to delete (use Ctrl+A to select all files and the right click menu to check them) and use the "Move" button to move them to the Recycle Bin. Scripting this is possible through the command line option /MOVETO (Professional Edition only). Any search options saved to an XML file can be passed at the command line and the results can be saved, for example: TreeSize.exe /SEARCH /SAVE "C:\Temp\TSP\SearchResults.xls" "C:\Temp\TSP\Not_Accessed_since_01-07-2008.xml". The results can also be moved: TreeSize.EXE /SEARCH /MOVETO "C:\Temp\TST\Moved" "C:\Temp\TSP\Files_ending_with_TMP.xml". You may pass "Recycle Bin" as destination as well.
| Q: | How can I change XY for each file in the search results in a schedules File Search? |
| A: | Start the TreeSize File Search. Please configure the custom file search appropriately, turn off all other search types and save your search options to an XML config file using the "File" menu. As an example we will describe how to apply NTFS compression to all files in the search results. This is not built into TreeSize Professional, but TreeSize Professional can pass each search result to an executable or script, which is a very powerful and flexible feature. Please create a small Batch file NTFSCompress.bat containing:
COMPACT /C %1
To NTFS compress the search results, you can use a command line like this:
TreeSize.exe /SEARCH /MOVETO NTFSCompress.bat MySearchOptions.xml
This solution applies to the Professional Edition only. |
| Q: | How do I perform a duplicate file search on multiple network drives? |
| A: | Open the TreeSize Professional File search using the Windows Start menu or the TreeSize Professional Tools menu, on the "Scan Options" tab activate only the duplicate file search, add the network paths to the list of "Drives and Paths to Search" and start the search. You may change the way TreeSize Professional compares the files on the "Duplicate Files" tab. |
| Q: | Is it possible to scan all our 300 workstations with TreeSize Professional for finding e.g. who stores PST files locally on his workstation? |
| A: | What you can do is using the Custom Search type of the TreeSize Professional File Search. It allows to search an entire Windows domain for certain files, like *.pst. Simply specify \\YourDomainName as path to search. TreeSize Professional will then enumerate all available PCs in that domain and search their drives (or more exactly: their public and hidden shares) for the files matching the search criteria. |
| Q: | Does TreeSize Professional support paths with more than 255 characters when searching files? |
Q: How do you search for files over a certain number GB and older than a certain date? I'm trying to find data to archive on my file server
A: Please start the TreeSize Professional File Search using the "File Search" menu or the Windows Start menu, activate the Custom Search type only on the Search Options tab and adjust the search parameters on the Custom Search tab accordingly.
Q: Does TreeSize Professional change any of the modified/accessed/changed date & time information on files or folders when scanning?
A: No, TreeSize does not change file dates when scanning a file system branch.
| Q: | Does TreeSize Professional allow to search for empty directories? |
| A: | No. Empty directories do not occupy disk space on NTFS volumes, so searching for empty directories costs time, but does not free up disk space. Furthermore there are directories in which programs place (temporary) files only while they run. Deleting these directories can cause error messages or malfunctions when starting those programs the next time. |
