Know Your Archive's True Footprint: Per-File Size Reports for Records Teams
Records managers and archivists routinely need to document the storage footprint of document batches before migrating to a DMS, submitting to a records center, or fulfilling a retention policy audit. Deliteful's File Size Report tool produces a plain-text, per-file size inventory for any uploaded batch, giving you the documentation your process requires.
Storage quotas, transfer pricing, and records management systems all depend on accurate file size data. Eyeballing a folder in Windows Explorer or macOS Finder gives you a rough total — but archiving workflows need per-file granularity, especially when ingesting mixed batches of PDFs, spreadsheets, images, and DOCX files that each carry different compression characteristics. A 500-page scanned PDF and a 500-page text-layer PDF can differ by an order of magnitude in file size.
Deliteful supports batches of up to 50 files across all common document formats. The output is a .txt report with each filename, its exact byte count, and a human-readable equivalent in KB, MB, or GB using standard base-1024 conversion. This makes it easy to attach the report to a transfer manifest or retention log without any reformatting.
How it works
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Create your free account
Sign in with Google in about 3 clicks — no credit card or software installation required.
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Upload the document batch
Add up to 50 files — PDFs, DOCX, Excel, CSV, images, or mixed formats — up to 2 GB total.
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Generate the size report
Deliteful processes the batch and returns a .txt file listing each document's name, byte count, and human-readable size.
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Attach to your transfer or retention record
Save the report alongside your archive manifest to document the storage footprint at time of ingestion.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I run a file size report on a mixed batch of PDFs, Word documents, and spreadsheets?
- Yes. The tool accepts PDF, DOCX, XLSX, XLS, CSV, TXT, PNG, JPG, JPEG, WEBP, ZIP, and JSON in a single batch. All formats are reported in the same output file.
- Is the output format suitable for attaching to a records transfer manifest?
- Yes. The report is a plain .txt file with tab-separated columns for filename, byte count, and human-readable size. It can be attached as-is to a manifest or imported into a spreadsheet.
- What is the largest batch this tool can handle?
- Up to 50 files per batch with a 2 GB combined limit. For PDF files, the per-file limit is 300 MB; for DOCX, 50 MB; for Excel, 200 MB; for CSV, 500 MB.
- Does the tool sort or aggregate file sizes?
- No. The report lists files in the order they were uploaded with no sorting or totaling applied. If you need aggregated totals, the plain-text output is easy to process in Excel or a script.
Create your free Deliteful account with Google and generate a size inventory for your next document batch in under a minute.