Scan and Find OPUS Files

OPUS offers a powerful tool, the Find OPUS Files command, in order to perform search runs on the spectra stored on your hard disk. Find OPUS Files searches a database for text strings defined by the user. Before you can use the Find OPUS Files command for the first time, you have to build this database. 

This is done with the Scan OPUS Files command 

On the first page of the accompanying dialog box (see Fig. 6.3) select the drives you would like to scan. Click on the Scan Files button to start the scan. Depending on the amount of spectra building the database and the size of the drives this will take several minutes. While this process is active, Scan OPUS Files will be displayed in the Status Bar. 

On the second page of the dialog box, as shown in Fig. 6.4, you can limit the information stored in the database by indicating the OPUS parameters you want to include or exclude. Excluding OPUS parameters speeds up the database generation. The abbreviations of the parameters have the following meaning  

The Scan OPUS Files dialog box Path to Scan page. 

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