"whole file" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when you are referring to an entire collection of documents, such as in the sentence, "I received the whole file from my lawyer."
So the sender knows the whole file was sent.
He had clippings of things you wrote, a whole file of them.
We need to see the whole file here because the president's handpicked man made this decision.
The whole file is played unless the begin or end times are specified.
Then the receiver knows it has received the whole file, but the sender doesn't.
She was always clipping recipes and articles that were important, but she had a whole file on gay rights.
Recent research has repeatedly shown that machine learning techniques can be applied to either whole files or file fragments to classify them for analysis.
"The result of that was that the German material is not to be found in discrete files, rather they are to be found in the whole files and therefore have to be extracted".
Mr. Booker's supporters, on the other hand, have tended to see the whole filing thing as an elaborate feint designed to make things as difficult as possible for the mayor's opponents before he drops out.
That is an amount of data equivalent to six versions of the original file, rather than the 100 that would be needed to achieve the same level of reliability if whole files were being stored.
Remember, the conventional wisdom is that the actual moisture, when the whole filed is harvested, will be about two (2) points wetter than what we get with our small samples.
