The purpose is to check your corpus for relevance and duplicates. And to help re-organise a corpus. And to check its format.

Examples:

 

•it isn't even in the same language as the rest of the corpus

•it is a copy of another text file or has very similar text

•it contains too much boilerplate text

•it is or is not relevant to a particular area of enquiry

•you want to move a section of the corpus or get a sample

 

Various standard buttons help you.

•Search : the button you will press to start a search (for duplicate texts, boilerplate, a corpus sample etc.

•Load or save any results obtained.

•Clear the current list display,

•Move some files or Restore them,

•Show selected text files

•File-name only : if checked you will see file-names without their paths.