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Use Auto Recover Ignore For Quick

UseAutoRecoverIgnoreForQuick is a sandbox setting in Sandboxie Ini, available since Sandboxie Plus 1.18.0. It specifies whether the AutoRecoverIgnore exclusion list is also applied to the Quick Recovery window, hiding matching files from the list of recoverable files.

Usage:

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   [DefaultBox]
   UseAutoRecoverIgnoreForQuick=n

The setting metadata describes an n default, but current SandMan reads an absent value as enabled. Thus its ordinary Quick Recovery list hides matching files unless the option is explicitly set to n or the window's display controls override filtering. This is a SandMan consumer default, not a process-side detector default. Setting n does not change how automatic recovery applies AutoRecoverIgnore.

The Quick Recovery Show All Files or Show Ignored view can display entries normally hidden by this option. SandMan also consults this preference when deciding whether to open an initial Immediate Recovery dialog for a reported candidate; it does not change the SbieDll detector's ignore decision.

In SandMan, this corresponds to the "Use the above exclusion list to hide matching files from the Quick Recovery window" checkbox under Sandbox Options > File Recovery > Immediate Recovery.

Related Sandboxie Ini settings: AutoRecoverIgnore, RecoverFolder. See also Quick Recovery.

See File Recovery Architecture for the separate recovery workflows.