Q: How can I script TreeSize to run automatically?

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

Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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.

Accepted Answer

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".

Question 3

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.

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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".

Question 5

How can I script TreeSize to run automatically?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

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.

Accepted Answer

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 .

Question 7

On our file systems we have archive file stubs which take up 8k. Is there a way of scanning files for size on disk? I am currently showing 800GB on a 300GB file system, as it sees the entire file size.

Accepted Answer

Please switch to "View > Allocated Space" and see if this helps. If not, the system does not report the size correctly.

Question 8

Can I synchronize two folders with TreeSize?

Accepted Answer

No, TreeSize cannot synchronize folders.

Question 9

I tried to make an excel-report for a file-server drive and got the message that the excel sheet couldn't handle more than 65535 lines and hence the report failed. Is there anything I can do to make TreeSizer handle more rows?

Accepted Answer

You have to switch to the Excel 2007+ format by using the .XLSX file extensions.

Question 10

Do you have a version available that works on an Apple / on MacOS?

Accepted Answer

We are sorry, but our products can be run on Windows systems only. We do not yet provide a Mac version.

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