SearchMyFiles came as an alternative for a standard windows search files modules, which it is allowing you to easily finding a files by a wildcard on your system and drive, by more filter such as modified, created, last accessed, file attributes, file content, or by the file size. It is also able to give you such an accureate results that cant be done with windows search module as example you can set a filter for files that created in the last 5 minutes with certain size. After done with your search you can select those results and save the list into a text/html/csv/xml file or copy the list to the clipboard. What better is SearchMyFiles is a portable application which you can use it from a usb flash drive without any registry traces left behind.
Search Options:
- Base Folder: Specifies the folder that you want to scan. if ´Scan Subfolders´ option is also checked, all subfolders under this folder will also be scanned. You can also specift multiple folders, delimited by semicolon. For example: c:\temp;d:\myfolder;d:\nirsoft
- Excluded Folders: Allows you to specify one or more folders (delimited by semicolon) that you want to exclude from the scan. For example: If you want to scan you entire C: drive, but without C:\Windows and C:\Documents and Settings, you should type ´C:\´ in the Base Folder, and ´C:\Windows;C:\Documents and Settings´ in the Excluded Folders field.
- Files Wildcard: Specifies the wildcard for scanning the files. You can specify multiple wildcards delimited by semicolon, for example: *.exe;*.dll;*.ocx
- Subfolders Wildcard: Specifies the wildcard for scanning the subfolders. For example, If you want to only scan the subfolders beginning with ´a´ letter, you can specify a*.* in this field.
- File Contains: Allows you to search by the content of the files. You can make a text search or binary search. On binary search, you should specify the binary sequence that you want to search in Hex dump format, for example: ´A2 C5 2F 8A 9E AC´.
- File Size: Specifies that you want to search files in specified size range (For example: search all files with size between 238 and 741 bytes).
- Attributes:Specifies that you want to search files with specific attributes. For example: if you want to find all files that are read-only but are not hidden, you should select ´Yes´ for Read Only attribute and ´No´ for Hidden attribute.
- File Time: Allows you to search files that have been created, modified, or accessed in the specified time range. You can specify an accurate time range (For example: 10/12/2008 12:32:11 - 12/12/2008 13:32:56) or you can specify the last number of seconds/minutes/hours/days. For example, you can search all files that have been modified in the last 10 minutes.
- Search Subfolders: If this option is checked, SearchMyFiles will scan all subfolders under the specified base folders.
- Find Folders: If this option is checked, SearchMyFiles will search for folders according to the other search options. If this options is not selected, SearchMyFiles will only search for files.
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