Exporting Documents from CS v16

Saswata Mandal

What is the efficient way to export 35000 documents with all versions from Content Suite v16 to Windows file system ? The documents are stored in multiple folders in Content Server .

Thanks & Regards

Saswata Mandal

Appu Nair

Easiest would be to use search and create a collection then when you are good with the data you have amassed configure "make Disk from collection" if not working .If it works you will get a index.html and the files. There are optimizations that OT des like if it think CS will exceed a file system directory length it will provide that as metadata so if a file was in a longggg/ggggggggggggggg/gggg/ggggggggg/ggggggggg/gggggggggg/gggggggggggg/gggggggggggggggggg/gggggggg/gggggg/gggggg/gggggggg/ggggggggg/ggggggg/ggggggggPath/MyFile

it would probably burn ln/ln2/ln3/like that although what I use is not the way code does it. File will be there ,path will be there ,real file name will be there and its mime will be there.Most people will then use this dump and its manaifest to move it for their use programmatically. OT designed this so Records Managment could give out this for discovery.

Appu Nair

sometimes Enterprise Connect can do this but I am not sure it knows how to get it from different paths

David Henshaw

@Saswata Mandal Fastman Content Extractor provides means to do this. It uses the Content Server APIs to extract the content (document and versions) and an accompanying XML file for each of the metadata (categories and other information). It generates the exported hierarchy (i.e. folder structure from Content Server) during the extraction which may then be browsed using Windows Explorer. Additionally, it provides a HTML index to provide more complete viewing/navigation of the extracted content.

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