Bulk Extractor Scanner Contrrols

[Dan Noonan at The OSU]

Hello: Is there a way to turn off all of the scanners in Bulk Extractor without having to click them off one-by-one? Is there something in the back-end whee the default can be set that they are all off, and you only check the ones you need to be turned on?

Thank you - Dan

[Simson Garfinkel]

Yes. -xall should turn them all off. 

This is in the documentation. 

You can also use -E to enable exclusive. The documentation says that it disables every scanner except the one you specify.

On Mar 3, 2025, at 11:09 AM, Dan Noonan at The OSU <noonan.3...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello: Is there a way to turn off all of the scanners in Bulk Extractor without having to click them off one-by-one? Is there something in the back-end whee the default can be set that they are all off, and you only check the ones you need to be turned on?

Thank you - Dan

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[Dan Noonan at The OSU]

Thank you for teh prompt reply Simon. I should have been more specific in my inquiry.

We are using the BE Viewer to conduct our work. I was hoping there is a way to tweak a setting in that to have the default as all scanners off.I can't seem to find a setting in the interface or how to accomplish that in the documentation. Thank you!

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[Simson Garfinkel]

Hi. THanks for your email.

The BE Viewer is no longer being maintained. I’m glad you have it working! But I think that you will need to manually click or unclick all of the check boxes.

On Mar 6, 2025, at 3:20 PM, Dan Noonan at The OSU <noonan.3...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for teh prompt reply Simson. I should have been more specific in my inquiry.

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[Dan Noonan at The OSU]

Thanks again Simon. I was just wanting to confirm that, and that I hadn't missed something. Thanks!

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