SharePoint site space usage

Question

Hello all,

I would like to find out how much space my group's SharePoint site uses (files + version history). However, I only have administrative access to my site, not the entire SharePoint instance, so I have to come up with my own solution. I'm interested in the total, but usage per individual file is also fine.

I've googled everything I could think of but couldn't find much that would help. SharePoint programming seems out of the question since I don't have access to the machine. SharePoint Web Services looked promising but none of the services provided seem to give me what I need. I also found a VBA library that lets me list the versions of a document: Office.DocumentLibraryVersion. However, this type does not include a "size" property - why not?

Anyway, I would be happy with either of the following solutions:

• A library or API to be used from VBA, VB, or C# (or any other language, for that matter)
• A SharePoint Web Service that provides file size/space usage information
• A completely crazy script that uses http to iterate through all the folders/files/versions in the library and does insane pattern matching to figure out the size of each file, then adds them together and returns the grand total (SharePoint du)

I figured SO is the best forum for this question, but a non-programmatic solution is just as welcome. Basically, anything you can come up with would help. At this point, even "this is not possible" would be useful.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There is a hidden page that does this... Cannot find it right now. Check the 1033 directory and similar to /layouts/usage.aspx. That page links to /layouts/storman.aspx. Unfortunately that page does not work if your site collection does not have a quota.

Answer 2

Go to Site Settings / Site Usage Report.

If what you are looking for is not there, I don't think you can do it with your level of access.

Answer 3

got to siote actions--> site administration-->site usage reports--> you can get the site usgae report

if you want to get it in excel chart--> open your site in sharepoint designer-->site-->reports-->usage-->then you can get

1. usage summary
2. monthly summary
3. daily summary
4. daily page hits etc

Answer 4

pease visit this site http://www.15seconds.com/issue/050623.htm it may useful for you