Bagpuss66 Posted June 6, 2018 Posted June 6, 2018 Is there an easier way of searching students folders for audio files in their home folders. We are blocking them using USB drives but obviously with so many home folders to look at it would be nice to have an easier way to find files that were added over the years.
sted Posted June 6, 2018 Posted June 6, 2018 file server resource manager its built into windows server(post 2008r2 iirc) and can just report or even block file types
TechMonkey Posted June 6, 2018 Posted June 6, 2018 Could use WizTree, scan the pupil areas and then select the filetype and it will highlight where they are. You then manually have to go find them. If you have monies, TreeSize Pro will allow you to search by filetype(s). Alternatively script something with Powershell, you could dump the result out to CSV or XLSX. If you are utterly sure you don't want audio you could set it to delete.
tim88 Posted June 6, 2018 Posted June 6, 2018 you can use nirsoft's "Search my Files" which lets you specify file type with wildcards. *.mp3 ...
jthompson Posted June 6, 2018 Posted June 6, 2018 (edited) Run a Windows search in Explorer across the user areas with "type:=.mp3 OR type:=.wma". While you're at it, run something like "size:>300MB" as well, in case anyone has a 2GB PowerPoint or something silly. +1 for FSRM, too. Edited June 6, 2018 by jthompson
Bagpuss66 Posted June 8, 2018 Author Posted June 8, 2018 A big thank you to everyone that made suggestions, we went for TreeSize Pro. Managed to delete a lot audio files that the students had hidden and some video clips.
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