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  5. Largest Files

Largest Files

Explore your data center using customizable report templates or by using parts of your IT infrastructure as entry points. Use Search to find reports, templates and dashboards across the portal.

Use the Reports tab to examine the catalog of templates, dashboards and reports - organized by products along with user-created, and system folders. This report is located here:

File Analytics > Storage Efficiencies > Largest Files

The largest files discovered are listed in descending order to help you identify the storage consumption offenders.

See File Analytics Overview.

Table: Largest Files

Column name

Description

File Name

Name of the large file

File Type

Category of the file, based on the filename extension

File Size

Size of the file

Owner

File owner

Last Access

Last file access timestamp

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