Acronis privacy expert suite 8.0 User Manual

Internet Clean-up

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Under the Windows operating system, a search string can represent a full or partial 
filename. A search string can contain any alphanumeric symbols, including comma, * 
and ? symbols, and can have values similar to the following: 
ƒ  *.* – to delete all files from the Recycle Bin – with any file names and 

extensions 

ƒ  *.doc – to delete files with specific extension – a Microsoft document file in 

this case 

ƒ  read*.* – to delete all files with any extensions, and names beginning with 

«read» 

ƒ  read?.* – to delete all files having five-letter names and any extensions, 

names beginning with «read»; the fifth letter is random 

ƒ  The last search string, for example, will result in removal of read1.txt, 

ready.doc files, but readyness.txt will remain with its longer name (excluding 
the extension) 

forums, etc. 
ƒ   

You can enter several different search strings separated by a semicolon; for 
example: 

*.bak; *.tmp; *.~~~;  

All files with names corresponding to at least one of the search strings will be 
deleted. 

 

Attention! The length of a search string with full or partial filenames is almost infinite!
You can enter any number of filenames or their parts like 

*.tmp, read?.*

 separated by 

a semicolon. 

This setting will enable you to set clean-up parameters for certain autocompleted 
form fields. For example, you can set it so each time the Internet Clean-up 
Wizard is run, fields with your personal information (name, surname, e-mail 
address, etc.) will be cleaned up. 

You can use * and ? wildcards to set this parameter: 

john@* - clean up all e-mail addresses that contain ‘john’ before the @ sign. 

Here you can specify e-mail clients to clean up using settings above.