High Disk Usage with Files that are uploaded in Appian Application (Are there any Compression tools to compress those files etc...)

RE: High Disk Usage with Files that are uploaded in Appian Application (Are there any Compression tools to compress those files etc...)

jerrys790 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 01:16:12 GMT

Hi Eric, anything that reduce the size of the file we will try. I am looking for something like if the file for example is 14 Mb we can reduce to maybe 1.4 MB or something to that nature. That is the general idea of what we are looking for

RE: High Disk Usage with Files that are uploaded in Appian Application (Are there any Compression tools to compress those files etc...)

aloks0189 — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 22:34:18 GMT

Adding to the above point:

1. By any chance if a document has multiple versions then I recommend deleting those unused versions.

2. And how about the document expiry date, after which you can delete those documents.

3. If non of the above solutions worked then I recommend try talking to Appian team and extend the storage for a quarter / half year / 1 year (depending on, how much it will take for the FTP solution to be ready) this will give you some buffer time but your organisation / client need to pay for that to Appian.

RE: High Disk Usage with Files that are uploaded in Appian Application (Are there any Compression tools to compress those files etc...)

ericg329 — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 21:54:52 GMT

Hi Jerry,

Would resizing the images be acceptable to reduce file size? If so, you may be able to use the image utilities plugin on the appmarket to shrink your file size on disk. Doing this in a plugin makes the most sense, but based on how your application is designed you may or may not be able to leverage something already on the appmarket versus having to write your own.

I assume you have already done some analysis on your disk usage, but if not make sure you check other potential culprits. For instance if you have a lot of large processes archived on disk you can compress those archives to free up space.