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Use Power BI gather the file attribute data; file size, date created, type and when last updated
Hi
Is it possible to use Power BI Desktop to look at shared folder, any sub directories, extract any file attributes: file name, file patrh, file size, file type, last upadted, and when created. Biuld up Stats data taken from a directory or many sub-directories?
Chris
Hi Anonymous ,
You can refer the content in the following links to achieve it.
Retrieve file sizes from the file system using Power Query
Getting file attributes to be part of a dataset - Power Query
Best Regards
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- mahoneypat
Microsoft Employee
Please see this article for a solution to analyzing your hard drive usage (easily adapted to just do a specific folder).
Template Files are an Under-Sung Feature – Hoosier BI
Pat
Hi Anonymous ,
You can refer the content in the following links to achieve it.
Retrieve file sizes from the file system using Power Query
Getting file attributes to be part of a dataset - Power Query
Best Regards
