Introduction

BigMIND users can apply filters on their data selection to include or exclude specific data (files/folders) based on certain Regular Expressions. (Learn more)

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Commonly Used Regular Expressions

DescriptionRegular Expression
Exclude any file/folder with word temp in its name, such as:

- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\Temporary folder
- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\Only temporary file.txt
(?i)temp
Exclude any file with the archive.pst as a part of its name in your data selections, such as:

- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\archive.pst
- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\Old Archive.pst
(?i)archive\.pst$
Exclude any file with the archive.pst as the exact name in your data selections, such as:

- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\archive.pst
^.*\\archive\.pst$
Exclude files with .txt and .tmp at the end of their names (extensions), such as:

- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\File.txt
- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\File.tmp
(?i)\.(txt|tmp)$
Exclude files end with such patterns: _100x100.jpg OR 150x150.jpg OR 200x200.jpg, such as:

- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\Image_100x100.jpg
- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\Pic_200x300.jpg
(?i)_\d+x\d+\.jpg$
Exclude any file/folder which ends with txt (regardless the extension of the file), such as:

- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\Test TXT
- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\File.txt
- C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Data\Document txt.dox
(?i)^.*(txt\..*|txt$|txt\\.*)
Exclude any folder which have the Thumbnails as a name, such as:

- C:\Thumbnails\
(?i)^.*\\Thumbnails\\.*