Knowledgebase

We have a few pages in our manual that describe how to get TreeSize connected to SharePoint:

1. https://manuals.jam-software.de/treesize/EN/scan_targets.html (general description of all scan targets, including SharePoint)
2. https://manuals.jam-software.de/treesize/EN/scantarget.html (description of the dialog that is used to select the scan target)
3. https://manuals.jam-software.de/treesize/EN/azure-ad-configuration.html (describes multi-factor authentication (MFA/2FA))

In the scan dialog, "Server name" is the URL to the SharePoint, "Path" is the optional subpath on your SharePoint you want to scan, "User name" and "Password" are the fields where you put in your credentials. Alternatively, you can log in using a certificate.

It is unfortunately not possible yet but we plan to implement this in a future release. If you are interested, please consider voting for this feature request on our feature voting platform: https://jam-software.upvoty.com/b/treesize/wildcard-contents-search/

The default IFilter that Windows uses to handle PDF files is unfortunately not capable of providing the necessary information so TreeSize can't get the data as a result.

To fix this, please install a different IFilter. You can use the free version of PDF-XChange Editor for example as this comes with an IFilter that provides everything TreeSize needs to get all attributes from PDF files.

You can select the scan root in the left panel (directory tree), right-click it, select "Export Data" -> "Copy list of files" to copy a list of all files inside the scan path to the clipboard.

This can be done by navigating to the advanced or duplicate search and by then right-clicking in an empty space in the search configuration area where you normally add filters. Select "Import from file" or "Export to file" afterwards and the program loads a previously saved filter configuration or saves the current one to a file, depending on what you chose.

TreeSize allows importing paths from a .csv or a .txt file. To do so, you can first expand the search path list by clicking on the arrow next to it or by clicking on an empty space inside somewhere, then right-click into the expanded path list and select "Import paths from file".

There are a few reasons why this can happen. The two most common ones are:

1. The duplicate files do not have the same MD5 checksum

2. There is an issue accessing the selected search path(s)

Regarding #1: The standard setting for the comparison method of the duplicate search is "File Content", which means the program compares the MD5 checksum of each file to determine if the files are identical. A way to find these files where the checksums don't match is to use "Name and size" as comparison method for example. This way, only the name and size have to match, but this is less accurate than the default setting.

Regarding #2: If TreeSize can't access the search path, it can't find any duplicates even if they exist and use the same MD5 checksum. This is indicated by an error on the bottom of the program window which you can click on. It should then tell you that the access to the path was denied.

In this case, please start the program as administrator as this solves the issue most of the time.

In our customer area, you can find an offer to upgrade to this version at a discount.

To change this, please use the command line parameter /SIZEUNIT N

For more information on this, please refer to this page in the manual for TreeSize.

The XML export's purpose is to be used to save a complete scan and to be able to load it later on, as well as using it for comparisons.

If you are only interested in the top level or a low depth, please consider using the Excel or CSV export instead.

It is also possible to reduce the size of the XML file by disabling the statistics for age of files, file owners and extensions in the scan settings.