About FolderSizes Search

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FolderSizes includes an internal search facility that provides powerful features not found in other file system search tools.

 

What is the FolderSizes Search Facility?

 

The FolderSizes Search system allows you to search multiple file system paths at the same time, including local, mapped, and UNC paths. What's more, the FolderSizes Search window provides flexible search criteria, which are further described in the remainder of this chapter.

 

The FolderSizes Search window toolbar provides access to a number of common functions:

 

•Start - Start the search process with the specified criteria.
•Stop - Cancels a search currently in progress.
•Load - Loads a previously saved search job definition.
•Save - Saves the currently defined search job to file. This file can be loaded again later for re-use.
•Reset - Resets all search job criteria to their default values.
•Print - Prints the current search results listing.
•Export - Allows you to export the search results listing to HTML, CSV, or TXT file formats.
•Help - Presents this help information.
•Close - Closes the search window.

 

The Search window also shows a listing of search paths, used to specify one or more target file system paths for searching.

 

Available search criteria are listed below (click for details).

 

•File Name Masks - Provides advanced file and folder name pattern matching.
•Date Range - Allows matching of file system objects within a specified date range.
•File Sizes - Allows matching of file system objects with specified size attributes.
•Name Lengths - Allows matching of file system objects with specific name lengths.
•Attributes - Provides file and folder attribute matching capabilities.
•File owners - Provides file system object owner matching.

 

Loading and Saving Search Job Files

 

As mentioned briefly above, the search window's "Save" toolbar button allows you to save the currently defined search criteria (including paths, file name masks, etc.) to a file. This file can later be re-loaded using the "Load" toolbar button.

 

This feature can be particularly valuable when you wish to execute a FolderSizes search using the command line interface.