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<section id="general-options">
<h1>General options<a class="headerlink" href="#general-options" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<section id="search-engine">
<h2>Search Engine<a class="headerlink" href="#search-engine" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="_images/TreeSize-FileSearch_Options_Search_Engine.png"><img alt="_images/TreeSize-FileSearch_Options_Search_Engine.png" class="align-center" src="_images/TreeSize-FileSearch_Options_Search_Engine.png" style="width: 100%;" />
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<section id="follow-mount-points-and-external-symbolic-links-to-directories">
<h3>Follow mount points and external symbolic links to directories<a class="headerlink" href="#follow-mount-points-and-external-symbolic-links-to-directories" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>You can decide if TreeSize should follow symbolic links and mount points (see <a class="reference internal" href="notesonntfs.html#notesonntfs"><span class="std std-ref">Notes on NTFS</span></a> for additional information) that point to other drives or folders on other drives.</p>
<p>Links that point within the scanned directory will never be followed in order to prevent circular references and folders from being counted twice.</p>
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<section id="skip-offline-files">
<h3>Skip offline files<a class="headerlink" href="#skip-offline-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Certain search types, such as the duplicates search via MD5-checksum, or the custom search for file content, accesses the content of a file.</p>
<p>This would trigger the download of offline files, which is not intended in most cases. Activate this option, to prevent this.</p>
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<section id="exclude-filter">
<h2>Exclude Filter<a class="headerlink" href="#exclude-filter" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<p>The file search was designed to identify obsolete or very large files in order to clean up a system.</p>
<p>Certain files like system files, however, should not be deleted because they are needed by the operating system or other software.</p>
<p>Files known to be important for a system can be added to the exclude list here and will then not be shown in the results any more.</p>
<section id="apply-global-search-filter-to">
<h3>Apply global search filter to<a class="headerlink" href="#apply-global-search-filter-to" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Select which of your searches should use the exclude filter. You can select for each of your searches individually, whether or not it should use the filters, or not.</p>
<section id="exclude-the-following-files">
<h4>Exclude the following files<a class="headerlink" href="#exclude-the-following-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>This option allows you to define exclude filters which will be used when searching for files . Each file/ folder will be compared against the filters and will not listed in the result list, if it matches. This can be used, for instance, to prevent system files from showing up in the result list. It can also be used to hide certain elements that are not relevant for your search.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>These filters will only be applied to the searches that are checked above. You can also enable and disable the filters by activating the corresponding option (“Use exclude filter”) in the ribbon menu.</p>
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<section id="how-to-define-an-exclude-filter">
<h4>How to define an exclude filter<a class="headerlink" href="#how-to-define-an-exclude-filter" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>To define a new filter, please follow these steps:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p>Click the “+” button. An entry will be created in the filters list for the new filter.</p></li>
<li><dl class="simple">
<dt>Define the filter:</dt><dd><ul class="simple">
<li><p>The most common type of filter is a simple “Full Path” filter. Select “Full Path” in the first selection box and “starts with” in the second one. Enter a path such as “C:\Program Files” to filter all files and folders within that path.</p></li>
<li><p>To exclude a groups of files, such as “System files”, select “File type” in the first selection box and the look for the corresponding group in the third.</p></li>
<li><p>You can also use Wildcard patterns such as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">*.exe</span></code>, or Regular Expression patterns such as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.+\.exe$</span></code>. Please make sure that you select “matches pattern” / “matches regular expression” in the second selector of the filter definition.</p></li>
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<div class="admonition tip">
<p class="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>New files or folders can also be easily added to this list using the right-click menu of the result lists (“Permanently exclude from search results”).</p>
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<section id="export">
<h2>Export<a class="headerlink" href="#export" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<section id="additional-information">
<h3>Additional information<a class="headerlink" href="#additional-information" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>You can specify the amount of additional header information that is included in exports of the file search.</p>
<section id="add-summary-information">
<h4>Add summary information<a class="headerlink" href="#add-summary-information" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Activate this option to include a short summary of the search into the export. This summary contains the path(s) that were processed, the date/time of the search, and the number and size of files and folders that were found.</p>
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<section id="add-column-headers">
<h4>Add column headers<a class="headerlink" href="#add-column-headers" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>If this option is set, TreeSize will include a row that displays the names of the columns, in addition to the actual search results.</p>
</section>
<section id="include-units-in-export">
<h4>Include units in export<a class="headerlink" href="#include-units-in-export" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>If this options is activated, units like “KB”, “MB”, or “%” will be included in the exported data. Uncheck this option, if you want to export plain values.</p>
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<section id="excel">
<h3>Excel<a class="headerlink" href="#excel" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Expandable/&collapsible report</p>
<p>A dynamic Excel report will be created in which items with subitems, such as duplicate groups, can be expanded/collapsed just like in the result list.</p>
</section>
<section id="export-path-list">
<h3>Export path list<a class="headerlink" href="#export-path-list" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Include duplicate groups</p>
<p>This option allows the export of duplicate search results via “File > List of paths > Export path list”. If this option is enabled, TreeSize will include the group structure of the duplicate search, when generating a list of files. This allows importing a previously performed duplicate search, without the need to perform the search again.</p>
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<section id="email">
<h2>Email<a class="headerlink" href="#email" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<p>Configure email settings for TreeSize File Search.</p>
<section id="email-content">
<h3>Email content<a class="headerlink" href="#email-content" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<section id="to">
<h4>To<a class="headerlink" href="#to" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>The email address the report will be sent to.</p>
</section>
<section id="subject">
<h4>Subject<a class="headerlink" href="#subject" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>The subject of the email. Supports environment variables such as %DATE%, %TIME% or %USERNAME%.</p>
</section>
<section id="format">
<h4>Format<a class="headerlink" href="#format" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Choose an email format here.</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="transport">
<h3>Transport<a class="headerlink" href="#transport" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<section id="use-mapi-client">
<h4>Use MAPI client<a class="headerlink" href="#use-mapi-client" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>If this setting is checked, TreeSize will use the local MAPI client (for example Microsoft Outlook) for sending mails.</p>
</section>
<section id="use-smtp-server">
<h4>Use SMTP server<a class="headerlink" href="#use-smtp-server" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>TreeSize will use the specified SMTP server to send email reports. Please make sure to test the connection settings before applying the current options.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>You will have to enter valid SMTP settings in order to make use of email reports in scheduled scan or search tasks or all other kinds of automated starts (e.g. batch programs or command line calls) (Professional Edition only).</p>
</div>
<p><strong>From</strong></p>
<p>The email address that will be shown as the sender of the report.</p>
<p><strong>Server</strong></p>
<p>The name (DNS) or IP address of the machine hosting the SMTP service through which messages are to be sent.</p>
<p><strong>Port</strong></p>
<p>The port on which the SMTP service specified in the “Server” field is listening for connections.</p>
<p><strong>Use secure (SSL) connection</strong></p>
<p>Indicates that Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) should be used when sending messages via SMTP.</p>
<p><strong>This server requires authentication</strong></p>
<p>Select this option if SMTP service specified by the Server field requires authentication. Passwords will be encrypted before storing them in the TreeSize settings file.</p>
<p><strong>Test Connection</strong></p>
<p>Test the SMTP connection settings. This will send a test email to the email address specified in the “To” field.</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="email-body">
<h3>Email body<a class="headerlink" href="#email-body" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<section id="include-results-in-mail-body">
<h4>Include results in mail body<a class="headerlink" href="#include-results-in-mail-body" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Results will be added to the body of the email. NOTE: For very bigger reports, this can lead to very large mails, which can take a very long time to open in mail clients, or even exceed mail server limitations.</p>
</section>
<section id="attach-a-report-with-the-results">
<h4>Attach a report with the results<a class="headerlink" href="#attach-a-report-with-the-results" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Adds the result report as attachment to the email. This fixes the problem of very large emails that can occur with the other option.</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="exported-lists">
<h3>Exported lists<a class="headerlink" href="#exported-lists" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<section id="active-list-all-lists">
<h4>Active list / all lists<a class="headerlink" href="#active-list-all-lists" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Select which search result lists shall be included in the email : only the currently active search types or all search types.</p>
</section>
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<section id="exported-elements">
<h3>Exported elements<a class="headerlink" href="#exported-elements" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Checked items / all items in the list</p>
<p>Select here, if you want to have just the checked/marked result list entries or all entries from the result list included in the email report.</p>
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