Analytics

Nara provides comprehensive details about the data in your storage, including the number and type of files and the amount of space they are taking up - all with the click of a single button.

To access this information, click on the Analytics button above the grid/list window in the browser (highlighted in blue below):

This will open the analytics view at the point you are currently browsing - in the example below browser is currently looking at the root of the volume 'QC - Seven BL2':

At the top of the view is a tile which summarises the total amount of space used and the total available in the current storage volume. Below that is a summary providing a more detailed breakdown of the number of movies, frame sequences, non-media files and so on.

The relative size of sub-folders below the current folder level is shown as a pie-chart containing rings broken into segments - the inner ring is the first sub-folder level, the next one is the next level down and so on. The relative amount of space taken up by each sub-folder determines the length of each segment.

To the right of the pie-chart are bars indicating the size of the largest first-level sub-folders.

Hovering the mouse over a segment (or one of the bars to its right) will highlight the segment and show the folder name and it's size:

Note that very small sub-folders will be grouped into one segment.

Clicking on a segment will make that sub-folder the centre of the pie-chart, allowing you to see more detail in the sub-folders below that point.

Hovering the mouse over the centre of the pie-chart will show the full path to the current sub-folder. If you want to navigate back up to a point higher in the folder structure, click on the

Below the pie-chart is a colour-coded indication of how long it is since they were last modified - this is useful as it shows how much of your storage is being updated regularly and how much of it hasn't stayed the same for ages. In the example below, about half the storage in this volume has had the same files for over two years.

There is also a breakdown of the different media and other file types within the current folder (and its sub-folders) shown in the form of both relative length bars and as a pie chart:

Hovering the mouse over any of the bars or segments in the pie chart will pop-up a further breakdown showing the different encoding formats within the media file type - for example, hovering over the QuickTime Movies in the above example shows the following:

Clicking on a bar or segment will switch back to grid view showing thumbnails of just the selected media type within the current folder. This selection is made by automatically enabling the metadata pivot button and setting the appropriate MediaType.

• You can return to the analytics view by clicking on the Analytics button again.