Find files: Advanced
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Advanced
These advanced search options are only used in some special cases, for example if the date of a letter is known, but not its file name.
Field Meaning
Date between: These two fields allow to specify the period of time when the file was last modified. Only one or also both fields can be given.
Not older than: Allows you to specify how old the file can be.
Older than: Also find files older than a certain date. Note that this is combined with AND with "Not older than" to find a range of files between two ages, e.g. older than 7 days but not older than 14 days.
File size: Here you can search for files equal to, smaller or larger than a specific size. Supports the Units "Bytes", kBytes, MBytes and GBytes (each a factor of 1024 larger than the previous one) and fractional numbers, e.g. 0.1 GBytes.
Attributes: Search for files with special attributes, like hidden, system, for directories, or NTFS-encrypted files.
Find duplicate files Search for files which have the same name, same size, same contents, or same content plugin property, or any combination of these. In the results the duplicates are grouped together and the groups are separated by dashed lines. The groups are sorted by the first enabled search criteria (if 'same name' is enabled: sort by name, otherwise if 'same size' or 'same contents' is enabled: sort by size, otherwise if 'same plugin fields' is enabled: sort by first plugin field).
same name If enabled, check if files have the same name.
same size If enabled, check if files have the same size.
same contents If enabled, check if files have the same contents. Although this takes long, it ensures that the files are 100% identical.
same plugin fields If specified, check if files have the same specified content plugin properties (e.g. extension, time stamp etc). If multiple plugin properties are specified, all of them must be identical (ANDing). Also supports value ranges, e.g. [=tc.name:1-3] will match just the first 3 characters of the name.
Note: The option "Any identical" (ORing) would not be possible, because then from three files, files 1 and 2 could have the same property A, file 2 and 3 could have the same property B, and files 1 and 3 could be different.