Contents Menu Expand Light mode Dark mode Auto light/dark, in light mode Auto light/dark, in dark mode Skip to content
TreeSize
Light Logo Dark Logo
TreeSize
  • Overview
  • Installation
  • Quickstart
  • Using TreeSize
    • Ribbon Bar
      • Application Menu
      • Quick Access Toolbar
      • Home tab
      • Scan tab
      • Tools menu
      • View menu
      • Help tab
    • Scan Targets
    • Selecting a scan target
    • Directory Tree
    • TreeSize Views
      • Charts
      • Details
      • Extensions
      • Users
      • Age of files
      • Top Files
      • History
    • Drive list
    • Snapshots
    • Disk Usage Comparison
    • Scanning SharePoint
      • Azure AD Configuration
        • Certificate based authentication
        • User based authentication
    • Options
      • Display
      • Directory Tree
      • File groups
      • Age of files
      • Charts
      • Top files
      • General scan options
      • Scan filters
      • Printer
      • PDF
      • Excel
      • HTML
      • CSV
      • XML
      • SQLite
      • Text
      • Email
      • Application start
      • Context menu
  • Using File Search
    • File Search Ribbon Bar
    • Search paths
    • Basic search
      • Search syntax
    • Duplicate file search
      • How does the duplicate search work?
      • How does the deduplication work?
    • Advanced search
      • How do I define search filters?
      • What types of filters are available?
    • File search templates
    • How to exclude files
    • Process search results
    • Move checked files
      • Unicode ZIP files
    • Mass renaming files
    • Search options
      • General options
      • Personalize
      • Other
  • Using Scheduled Tasks
    • Scheduling scans
      • Options
      • Export
      • File operations
      • Advances
      • Command line
      • Scheduling
      • All Tasks
    • Command line options
    • How to schedule a file search
    • How to schedule a move or delete operation
  • Tips & Annotations
    • Notes on NTFS
    • Wasted space
    • Regular expressions
    • Translations
  • Copyright & Contact
Back to top

Basic search¶

The basic search provides a quick and simple entry to the file search. It is mainly aimed towards the more simple use cases, but offers a lot more functionality than what you can see at first glance.

It is easy to use, since you can simply enter what you are looking for into the search box, similar to Windows Explorer’s search.

By default, the search will look for file names that match the user’s input into the search box.

_images/TreeSize-FileSearch_BasicSearch.png

Tip

The search box offers functionality that goes beyond the simple textual input of file names. You can customize your search even further by using our advanced Search syntax.

This allows power users to combine multiple search parameters by simply typing their configuration into the search box, without having to navigate the user interface.

Context tab¶

Start¶

Starts the file search.

Stop¶

Stops the file search.

Customize File Type Groups¶

Opens the options dialog and navigates to the “File Groups” options page. Here, you can modify the different file groups and which file types they should contain.

Exclude filter¶

Allows to activate, deactivate or customize the global exclude filters for this search.

Include files/folders¶

Determines whether the current search should search for files, folders, or both.

  • Search syntax
Next
Search syntax
Previous
Search paths
Copyright © 1995 - 2025 Joachim Marder e.K.
Made with Sphinx and @pradyunsg's Furo
On this page
  • Basic search
    • Context tab
      • Start
      • Stop
      • Customize File Type Groups
      • Exclude filter
      • Include files/folders