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System Lifeguard 2 can help you optimize the way you use your hard disk space. Old Files usually are files that haven't been used for a long time. It is very likely that this data is just wasting your disc space.
Files are called Old Files because your computer has not accessed them for a predefined amount of time. It might be that they are now obsolete.
To use this function follow the steps described below:
Step 1
Choose Clean My Computer and then Click Old Files.
- Click Add a New Path button to add a new path for System LifeGuard 2 to scan.
- Click Delete Path button to remove a certain path from the list
- Click Add All Local Drives to add to the list all the local drives of your computer
- Click Clear All Paths to clear the entire list of paths/drives.
Click Next button and System LifeGuard 2 will start scanning the selected paths/drives for old files.
Step 2
Select the amount of time (specified in days, weeks, months, years).
E.g. If you set the time to 5 Years, all the files that are older then 5 years will be listed as old files.
Step 3
After the scanning process is done System LifeGuard will display a list of the old files found on your computer.
- Click Select All button to select all the files from the list (in order to clean all these files).
- Click Unselect All button to unselect all the files from the list.
- Click Filter to filter the files from the list on several criteria: by name, by date, by size or/and by security level.
- Click Clear Filter to remove the filter that has been applied to the list.
- After selecting the files to clean click Clean All Selected button and then choose what to do with the selected files:
- Secure Delete Files - the files will be deleted but there will be a possibility to recover them using Restore Deleted Files function
- Delete Files - the selected files will be deleted from your computer.
- Shred Files - the selected files will be permanently removed from your computer and there will be now way to recover them.
- Click Backup All Selected to backup the selected files that you are going to delete. You will be taken to Backup Files page
- Click Pack Selected to create a zip file from all the selected files. A window will de opened so that you can select the path and type in the name of the Zip file that is to be created.
- Click Organize To button if you want to organize the selected files to a certain folder.
This program will list these old files and will tag them with the "Safe", "Warning" and "Critical" icons.
Once identified in this way, you will be able to review their value and decide whether they should be deleted or retained. |
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