What does Relativity Native Type describe?

• A. the type of native file loaded into the system
• B. the document's file extension
• C. the encoding of the file
• D. the size of the native file

Answer: (A)

Relativity Native Type is the classification of the native file that has been loaded into the system—the general category of the file, such as a Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, a PDF, or an email. This tells Relativity what kind of content it contains and guides how to process, render, and extract data from it. It’s a functional descriptor used by the platform to decide which viewers and workflows to apply, based on the file’s format and content. This differs from the file extension, which is just a suffix, from encoding (character encoding inside the file), or from file size.