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Hello Tom,

On Wednesday, October 9, 2024 you wrote:

A bunch o'stuff, but this may help:




SearchMyFiles v2.35
Copyright (c) 2009 - 2012 Nir Sofer
Web site: http://www.nirsoft.net



Description
===========

SearchMyFiles is an alternative to the standard "Search For Files And
Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your
system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file
attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file
size. SearchMyFiles allows you to make a very accurate search that cannot
be done with Windows search. For Example: You can search all files
created in the last 10 minutes with size between 500 and 700 bytes.
After you made a search, you can select one or more files, and save the
list into text/html/csv/xml file, or copy the list to the clipboard.

SearchMyFiles is portable, and you can use it from a USB flash drive
without leaving traces in the Registry of the scanned computer.



System Requirements
===================

This utility works on any version of Windows starting from Windows 2000
and up to Windows 7.



Known Problems
==============


* When you filter files or folders by using a wildcard (e.g 2*.*), the
  search is also made on the short filenames (8.3 file format) and thus
  some irrelevant files may appear in the search result. This problem is
  caused by the API of Windows, which also make the wildcard search on
  the short filenames.
  In future versions, I plan to create my own wildcard parser in order to
  solve this issue.



Future Versions
===============

The following features might be added in future versions, according to
user requests and my own ideas:
* Add Explorer-like context-menu that will allow to do some actions on
  the files appeared in the search result.
* Fix the folder wildcard feature to work like most users expect.
* Add 'Aggregate Reports' option - Instead of displaying all found
  files, display only summary of found files - count, total size, average
  file size, and so on.
* Search files by alternate stream data.
* Search the content of files by regular expressions.
* An option to search file names by regular expression, as alternative
  for wildcard search.



Using SearchMyFiles
===================

SearchMyFiles doesn't require any installation process or additional DLL
files. In order to start using it, simply run the executable file -
SearchMyFiles.exe
After running it, the 'Search Options' dialog-box is displayed. Select
the base folders or drives that you want to search, the wildcard, and
other search option that you need. After choosing the right search
option, click 'Ok' in order to start the search. While in search process,
the found files will be displayed in the main window. If you want to stop
the search, you can simply click the 'Stop' menu.

After the search is finished, you can select one or more files, and then
save the list into text/csv/html/xml file by using the 'Save Selected
Items' option. You can also select a single file and open it with the
default program by using the 'Open Selected File' option.



Search Options
==============

Here's a small explanation about all available 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 or by comma, for
  example: *.exe;*.dll;*.ocx or *.exe,*.dll,*.ocx. Be aware that if you
  want to search a filename containing semicolon or comma, you must put
  it in quotes. For example: "Hello, World.txt". If you don't put it in
  quotes, SearchMyFiles will consider it as 2 separated files.
* 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.
* Exclude Extensions: Specifies one or more file extensions to exclude
  from the search. You can specify multiple extensions delimited by
  semicolon, by comma, or by space character, for example: exe dll ocx
* 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'.
* Search multiple values (comma delimited): When this option is
  selected, you can specify multiple values to search in the 'File
  Contains' field. The multiple values are delimited by comma, and
  optionally also with quotes.
  For example:
  NirSoft, Nir Sofer, Search, 123, "abc,123"
  A1 82 A7 AC, 27 9A CC FF, A1 B2 71 22
* 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.



Getting MD5/SHA hashes of the found files
=========================================

If you want to get the MD5/SHA hashes of the files that you found with
SearchMyFiles, you can easily do it with HashMyFiles utility.
First, in the SearchMyFiles window, select the desired files and press
Ctrl+E (Explorer Copy). In the HashMyFiles window, press Ctrl+V (Paste)
to add the files that you previously selected in SearchMyFiles.



Duplicate Search Mode
=====================

Starting from version 1.35, SearchMyFiles also allows you to search
duplicate files on your system. In order to use this feature, simply
change the search mode in the 'Search Options' window to 'Duplicates
Search'.
When you switch to 'Duplicates Search' mode, all other search options are
still relevant, and SearchMyFiles will scan your files according to these
settings. For example: if you choose to search for files larger than
500KB, SearchMyFiles will only search for duplicate files that their size
is larger than 500KB. In fact, it's highly recommended to narrow your
duplicate search by using date/size restrictions, because if you don't do
it, the duplicate search will be very slow, and it'll consume a large
amount of memory.

When you are in 'Duplicates Search' mode, SearchMyFiles will first scan
all files and folders according to your settings, and only after the scan
is finished, it'll locate the duplicate files and add them to the files
list on the main window. SearchMyFiles automatically mark the duplicate
files with identical colors (up to 64 different colors). There is also a
'Duplicate Number' column, which displays identical number for each chunk
of duplicate files. You can click the 'Duplicate Number' column header in
order to sort by this column and to easily view the chunks of duplicate
files.

Be aware that the duplicate search is done by making a binary comparison
of the files with the same size, byte by byte.



Non-Duplicates Search Mode
==========================

This mode is the opposite of Duplicate Search Mode, which means that it
displays all files in the specified folders that are not duplicated.



Command-Line Options
====================

You can use the following command-line option in order to execute a
search without displaying any user interface and save the result into a
file. Be aware that when you do that, the only way to stop the search is
by termintaing the process of SearchMyFiles (SearchMyFiles.exe).

/config <Filename>
Loads the configuration from the specified .cfg file. Can be used in
conjunction with the save options, like /stext, /scomma and so on.

/StartSearch
Tells SearchMyFiles utility to start the search immediately, without
displaying the 'Search Options' dialog-box, according to the last
configuration or according to the config file specified in /config
parameter.

/ExplorerCopy
Search files without user interface according to the configuration file,
and then copy the found files list to the clipboard in Windows Explorer
format (Like 'Explorer Copy' option)

/SaveDirect
Save the files list in SaveDirect mode. For using with the other save
command-line options ( /scomma, /stab, /sxml, and so on...)
When you use the SaveDirect mode, the details of found files are saved
directly to the disk, without loading them into the memory first. This
means that you can save a list with large amount of files into your disk
without any memory problem, as long as you have enough disk space to
store the saved file. The drawback of this mode: You cannot sort the
files list according to the name or any other column. The details of
files are simply saved in the order that SearchMyFiles found them.

/stext <Filename>
Search and save the result into a regular text file.

/stab <Filename>
Search and save the result into a tab-delimited text file.

/scomma <Filename>
Search and save the result into a comma-delimited text file (csv).

/stabular <Filename>
Search and save the result into a tabular text file.

/shtml <Filename>
Search and save the result into HTML file (Horizontal).

/sverhtml <Filename>
Search and save the result into HTML file (Vertical).

/sxml <Filename>
Search and save the result to XML file.

/sort <column>
This command-line option can be used with other save options for sorting
by the desired column. If you don't specify this option, the list is
sorted according to the last sort that you made from the user interface.
The <column> parameter can specify the column index (0 for the first
column, 1 for the second column, and so on) or the name of the column,
like "Filename" and "Created Time". You can specify the '~' prefix
character (e.g: "~Created Time") if you want to sort in descending order.
You can put multiple /sort in the command-line if you want to sort by
multiple columns.

Examples:
SearchMyFiles.exe /shtml "f:\temp\1.html" /sort 2 /sort ~1
SearchMyFiles.exe /shtml "f:\temp\1.html" /sort "~Extension" /sort
"Filename"

/nosort
When you specify this command-line option, the list will be saved without
any sorting.

You can also use the following command-line option to override the
configuration loaded from the .cfg file:



/FilesWildcard <Wildcard>
Specifies the files wildcard.

/SubfoldersWildcard <Wildcard>
Specifies the subfolders wildcard.

/BaseFolder <Folder>
Specifies the base folders to search.

/ExcludedFolder <Folder>
Specifies the folders to exclude in the search.

/ScanSubfolders <0 | 1>
Specifies whether to search in subfolders. 1 = Yes, 0 = No.

/ExcludeExtensions <Extensions>
Specifies one or more extensions to exclude.

/FindFiles <0 | 1>
Specifies whether to find files. 1 = Yes, 0 = No.

/FindFolders <0 | 1>
Specifies whether to find folders. 1 = Yes, 0 = No.

/UseFileSizeAtLeast <0 | 1>
/UseFileSizeAtMost <0 | 1>
Specifies whether to use the "At Least" and "At Most" file size filter. 1
= Yes, 0 = No.


/FileSizeAtLeast <Value>
/FileSizeAtMost <Value>
Specifies the values of file size filters.


/FileSizeAtLeastUnit <Value>
/FileSizeAtMostUnit <Value>
Specifies the units of file size filters. 1 = Bytes, 2 = KB, 3 = MB, 4 =
GB


/FileAttrReadOnly <Value>
/FileAttrSystem <Value>
/FileAttrHidden <Value>
/FileAttrArchive <Value>
/FileAttrCompressed <Value>
/FileAttrEncrypted <Value>
Specifies the file attributes filter. 1 = Both, 2 = No, 3 = Yes.

/FileContains <Value>
Specifies the 'File Contains' option. 0 = None, 1 = Text, 2 = Binary.

/FileContainsText <String>
Specifies the 'File Contains' text.

/FileContainsCaseSensitive <0 | 1>
Specifies whether the 'File Contains' string is case sensitive. 1 = Yes,
0 = No.


/FileTimeCreated <Value>
/FileTimeModified <Value>
/FileTimeAccessed <Value>
Specifies the filter option by file time. 0 = All Times, 1 = Time Range,
2 = Last XX Seconds, 3 = Last XX Minutes, 4 = Last XX Hours, 5 = Last XX
Days.


/FileTimeCreatedLastXX <Value>
/FileTimeModifiedLastXX <Value>
/FileTimeAccessedLastXX <Value>
Specifies the last xx seconds/minutes/hours/days values.


/FileTimeAccessed1 <Value>
/FileTimeAccessed2 <Value>
/FileTimeModified1 <Value>
/FileTimeModified2 <Value>
/FileTimeCreated1 <Value>
/FileTimeCreated2 <Value>
Specifies date/time range values. The date/time value must be in the
following format: dd-mm-yyyy hh:nn:ss

For example:
SearchMyFiles.exe /FileTimeModified1 "10-01-2010 12:00:00"
/FileTimeModified2 "18-01-2010 08:00:00"

/SubFolderDepth <Value>
Specifies the subfolders depth. 0 = Unlimited.

/UseMaxNumOfFiles <0 | 1>
Specifies whether to limit the number of files to find. 1 = Yes, 0 = No.

/MaxNumOfFiles <Value>
Specifies the maximum number of files to find.

/SearchMode <1 | 2>
Specifies the search mode. 1 = Standard Search, 2 = Duplicate Search.

Examples:
SearchMyFiles.exe /scomma c:\temp\bfiles1.csv /FilesWildcard b*.*
SearchMyFiles.exe /config c:\temp\myconfig.cfg /BaseFolder "c:\Program
Files" /shtml c:\temp\result.html
SearchMyFiles.exe /stab c:\temp\searchfiles.txt



Translating SearchMyFiles to other languages
============================================

In order to translate SearchMyFiles to other language, follow the
instructions below:
1. Run SearchMyFiles with /savelangfile parameter:
   SearchMyFiles.exe /savelangfile
   A file named SearchMyFiles_lng.ini will be created in the folder of
   SearchMyFiles utility.
2. Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text
   editor.
3. Translate all string entries to the desired language. Optionally,
   you can also add your name and/or a link to your Web site.
   (TranslatorName and TranslatorURL values) If you add this information,
   it'll be used in the 'About' window.
4. After you finish the translation, Run SearchMyFiles, and all
   translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
   If you want to run SearchMyFiles without the translation, simply
   rename the language file, or move it to another folder.



License
=======

This utility is released as freeware. You are allowed to freely
distribute this utility via floppy disk, CD-ROM, Internet, or in any
other way, as long as you don't charge anything for this. If you
distribute this utility, you must include all files in the distribution
package, without any modification !



Disclaimer
==========

The software is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, either expressed
or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The author will not
be liable for any special, incidental, consequential or indirect damages
due to loss of data or any other reason.



Feedback
========

If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my
utility, you can send a message to nirsofer-/[email protected]

-- 
Regards,
Jack
Central Alabama USA

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