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Quick Start: Finding Files by Size
Select What to Search
Select the folder(s), paths(s) or drive(s) you want to search in either the left or right windows. The Find dialog will default to searching these selections but they can be easily changed in the dialog itself.
Open the Find Dialog
| • | Select Find | Files by Size... from the main menu |
Enter the Filenames or Patterns to Search for
| • | Enter the file patterns you are looking for. Multiple patterns are separated by either a semi-colon (;) or a bar character (|). You can even specify folders to exclude by preceding the name with a minus sign. For complete details right-click the field in the program. |
| • | Then enter the smallest and largest size for which you are looking. The sizes are in bytes but following the number by a K or an M indicates kilobytes and megabytes respectively. Enter Zillions or -1 for unlimited size. |
| • | In the above example FileBoss will find all files C drive and all of its sub-folders. The search will be for ZIP files greater than four megabytes in size. |
Hint: You can limit your search (and thus speed it up and make its results more meaningful) by specifying one or more folders to search instead of just a whole drive. You can also, in the Patterns field, specify only certain files to search file such as *.doc | *.jpg | *.jpeg | *.html | *.htm
Click OK to search and create a Virtual Folder of all matching files
Displaying the File Sizes in the Contents Window
(If the file sizes are not already displayed in the Contents Window)
 This works the same in both Explore Views and Virtual Virtual Folders.
Move the mouse over the column headers (the column headers are at the top of the Contents Window and have titles like Filename, Ext and Size.)
Right-click the to display a list of columns that can be displayed
Check the boxes next to items you want displayed.
Click the Close Menu button.
Hint: You can change the order of the columns by clicking a header with the left mouse button and, while holding the mouse button down, dragging the column to its new location.
Sorting by File Size
Simply click on the Size column header. To reverse the sort click the column header again.
Specifying File Sizes
When Limit by Size is checked FileBoss will only include files that fall between the From and To sizes, inclusive. Make both entries the same to only return files of a specific size.
E.g. entering '0' for both fields will only return files of zero length.
This field only affects files - not folders. As far as Windows is concerned folders always have a size of 0.
Unlimited Sizes
To specify an unlimited size for files (i.e. up to any amount) enter -1 or Zillions into the To field of the Sizes area. (Actually, to specify an unlimited size you can enter Zillions or any other word(s) as long as it is not a number, e.g. I Love FileBoss would work just fine).
Megabytes & Kilobytes
In addition, M, MB, Megs, KB and K (in any case) can follow a number to signify megabytes or kilobytes as desired. But note that these numbers will be translated into bytes when they are redisplayed.
Easy Reading
Commas can be used in numbers if it makes you feel better.
Ref: HTDE_CREATE_FILESET_SIZE
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