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Browse large number of files in Azure Storage Explorer


I have a large number of files in one of our datalake folders. I use Azure Storage Explorer to find\download specific files. If I need the latest files, which is usually the case, I go through all the pages to get to last one and this takes a lot of time. Is there an easier way to do this? Or perhaps setup the folder in a descending order based on created timestamp?

storage-explorer files listing halfway through


Solution

  • If I understand correctly, the latest file is the file which created/upload latest.

    We usually using Last Modified to get the latest file. For example, I have 300+ blobs in a folder, the Last Modified can help me get the latest file in the first row no matter how many pages I have. enter image description here

    If you have any other concerns, please feel free to let me know, thank you.

    But if there are very large number of files, just for now, there isn't a good solution for it.

    HTH.