topic Re: Uploaded documents assigned octetstream mimetype in Alfresco Archive

Uploaded documents assigned octetstream mimetype

mthome — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:19:48 GMT

I uploaded several thousand documents, mainly pdf and jpg, to a new alfresco-3.4.c installation using webdav from a windows machine. The documents are all there, but were all assigned a mimetype of octetstream rather than the correct mimetype based on extension (acrobat or jpeg). This has resulted

Re: Uploaded documents assigned octetstream mimetype

gnyce — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:53:25 GMT

good question - re: No 2, I think on the upgrade (at least for us, 3.3g –> 3.4c), they run a script that says "fix mime types for ms excel and ms powerpoint". So it looks like it can be done. Maybe that is enough for you to track down?? Sorry, have no more help than that…

Re: Uploaded documents assigned octetstream mimetype

mthome — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:44:43 GMT

Interestingly, if I upload documents from linux (to the same webdav!) instead of from windows, it works right the first time. As much as it makes me cringe, I'm considering walking the tree from linux, copying each pdf/etc file out of the dav, deleting the original and copying it back in. Horrible, but it does seem to work.

Re: Uploaded documents assigned octetstream mimetype

joran — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:53:45 GMT

I am having the same problem, seems to be a problem with flash (I'm using SWFUpload in a custom interface to uplaod to aflresco), it marks every upload as mimetype octet-stream. Still looking for a simple fix here..

Re: Uploaded documents assigned octetstream mimetype

stevegreenbaum — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:45:17 GMT

I've bumped into this issue previously, but thought this issue was fixed for 3.4d – http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-6560