Searching Files for Personal Information

Spirion searches for all file types (including compressed files, if enabled) in the locations you specify. Files include all files on your computer that can be read by Spirion. Spirion can search more than 200 of the most common file types utilizing internal filters as well as Spotlight Plugins to obtain text from any file type supported by the system and then utilizes its proprietary AnyFind search engine to locate data matches.

You can enable searching of Files by clicking the Files button on the toolbar and selecting Enable File Search. When the menu item is checked, it is enabled.

File types searchable by Spirion:

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Microsoft Word
• Adobe Acrobat
• Compressed zip, z, tgz, tbz2, tar, rar, gz, bz2 and bz files
• Plain Text Files (extensive list available upon request)
• ANSI
• Unicode
• Batch Files
• Source Code Files
• Cookies
• Instant Messenger Logs
• Rich Text Format
• Web Pages
• Any other file via Spotlight Plugins or text extraction

Additional Information

To view or modify File Types settings, click the Preferences button on the toolbar, then the File Types button. Alternatively, you can select Preferences in the Spirion menu and select File Types.