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Migrating photos, videos

Updated July 22, 2014

asked on July 22, 2014

Hi all,

My Customer's PR department has 4 TB of photos, videos stored on a shared drive which they want to control access and search to. In moving these media to LF, I am aware of the tag function to add metadata to each photo but is there a better measure to migrate 4 TB worth of media?

Current file name convention is by Folder event eg : Christmas party 2013 with multiple fie names eg: IMG_9299.JPG

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replied on July 22, 2014

Sure!

You could create a workflow to get part of the file name and map this into a metadata field. The workflow in it's very basic form would look something like this.

Of course this would be totally dependent on what's available in the filename (which translates to Entry Name when in LF).

Hope this helps!

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replied on July 22, 2014

Dragging and dropping the folder structure into Laserfiche will keep the same folder structure. However with such a large amount of data I would look at doing this in smaller batches. Similarly you could dump smaller batches into preconfigured profiles in Import Agent. Folder security can be applied in a similar format to what is already in place within windows.

Unfortunately without any standard file naming convention it would be difficult to use WF or something (SDK) to apply metadata 'en mass'. That's not to say you couldn't strip something from the filename if there is anything to work with using pattern matching and workflow....

Having said that......what is the question here?

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replied on July 22, 2014

Thanks Chris. Am exploring how to help Customer best migrate with as llittle manual effort as possible. You mentined WF configuration is possible?

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replied on July 22, 2014

Sure!

You could create a workflow to get part of the file name and map this into a metadata field. The workflow in it's very basic form would look something like this.

Of course this would be totally dependent on what's available in the filename (which translates to Entry Name when in LF).

Hope this helps!

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