Using Search History

The Use Search History for Files setting enables you to increase the speed and performance of Spirion's search by skipping any files already searched by Spirion that have not been modified since your previous search. The first time you run a search after you enable this checkbox (it is on by default), a search history database is created with information about all of the files that Spirion searches and the AnyFind Data Types used to search those files. Each additional time you run a search with this checkbox enabled, Spirion skips all files that have not changed since the previous search as long as they did not contain any Data Matches and new AnyFind Data Types were not enabled. Files found to contain Data Matches during a search are searched again during subsequent searches unless you specifically add those files to the Ignore List.

If enabled, the Searching Only Files Created or Modified Since a User Specified Date setting prevents Spirion from searching any files that have not changed since the date specified. This feature enables you to increase the speed and performance of Spirion's search and is especially useful if you recently ran Spirion but did not have the Use Search History for Files setting enabled and only wish to search files modified since that previous search.

To view or change this setting, click the Preferences button on the toolbar and then click Performance and select File Search from the dropdown. Alternatively, you can click Preferences in the Spirion menu and then click Performance then select File Search from the dropdown.