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No, TreeSize does not change file dates when scanning a file system branch, it works strictly readonly unless told otherwise by the user.
Basically a user requires the right to list the folders contents and to read the attributes. On a share additionally read access on the share is necessary.
However, being a member of the Administrators group is sufficient for TreeSize to scan the whole disk on a standard Windows network/installation.
If access in Windows Explorer is working, a scan with Treesize should work too.
Please start the TreeSize File Search using the Tools or the Windows Start menu, select the template "Large files" and adjust the search parameters in the "Search configuration" panel accordingly.
You can use the TreeSize File Search to schedule such a job. You can find a step by step description for this use case here.
Yes, you can sort TreeSize lists by any shown column by clicking on the header of the column. In case of the "Last Access" column, the list is sorted from the oldest to the newest date value. Click the header again to sort the list from the newest to the oldest.
The XML files were meant to store the complete results of a scan for recalling them later and to compare them with the latest scan results. So there was (and is) no need for limiting the result display to a certain scan level.
If you are interested only in the uppermost level of the file system, HTML, PDF or Excel exports are quite comfortable, too.
If you simply want to reduce the total size of the XML file, you could deactivate the statistics on users and file types.
You can use command line paramaters to start a scan and automatically generate an Excel report.
For example:
You want to scan the drive C:\ and your installation directory of TreeSize is "C:\Programs\JAMSoftware\TreeSize\TreeSize.exe"
Your directory for your reports is "D:\My Company\Reports\TREESIZE\sheet1.xlsx",
with "sheet1.xlsx" as your sheet for reports.
In this case, the full command line would look like this: "C:\Programs\JAMSoftware\TreeSize\TreeSize.exe" /EXCEL "D:\MyCompany\Reports\TREESIZE\sheet1.xlsx" /SCAN "C:\"
Paths containing directory names with spaces must be embraced by double quotes, so it is a consistent and careful habit to double-quote all paths to avoid problems. Instead of retyping the command line every time you want to scan, you can save it into a .bat-file and start it by double-clicking.
/SEARCH opens the TreeSize File Search. If you add the ":start" option to this call, the search will be executed immediately. TreeSize, by default, uses the same settings as it did in the last file search. You may also supply a config file with search options. For further information, please refer to this chapter of the TreeSize manual.
You can switch this feature on or off in the options dialog under "System > Context Menu".
By default, TreeSize uses the columns for the export that are visible on the "Details" page.
You may configure the columns and other export settings in detail in the options dialog of TreeSize under the corresponding export type. You can then enable/disable the columns in the "Visible columns" list of this options page.
