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La directrice a rassemblé la totalité des dossiers sur son bureau.

La directrice a rassemblé la totalité des dossiers sur son bureau.
The director (f) gathered the entirety of the files on her desk.
From Lesson 436:The pronouns all and everyone (tous, toutes)·French

Questions & Answers about La directrice a rassemblé la totalité des dossiers sur son bureau.

How would I rewrite this sentence to use the pronoun tous (all of them)?
You could replace la totalité des dossiers with a direct object pronoun and tous, like this: La directrice les a tous rassemblés sur son bureau (The director gathered them all on her desk). In this case, tous acts as an indefinite plural pronoun rather than an adjective, which means you must pronounce its final 's'.
Why use la totalité des instead of just saying tous les?
Both mean essentially the same thing, but la totalité des (the entirety of) is slightly more formal and places a stronger emphasis on absolutely nothing being left out. Tous les dossiers is the more standard, everyday way to say 'all the files'.
Why is it son bureau when la directrice is a woman? Shouldn't it be sa?
This is a classic trap that is easy to forget! In French, possessive adjectives agree with the thing being owned, not the owner. Because bureau is a masculine noun, you must use son, regardless of whether the desk belongs to a man or a woman.
Why doesn't the past participle rassemblé agree with the feminine subject la directrice?
When a verb uses avoir in the passé composé, the past participle never agrees with the subject. It only agrees with a direct object if that object is placed before the verb. Since the direct object (la totalité des dossiers) comes after the verb here, rassemblé takes no extra agreement letters.

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