topic Re: Reliability of metadata in file uri in Alfresco Archive

Reliability of metadata in file uri

titusnachbauer — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:39:48 GMT

Hi there,I am doing an analysis of a client's Alfresco system. I posted about this before. The problem is that they lost admin access to the system, so we cannot use any API or the node browser. We only have direct access to the database. I was able to extract a lot of information from that. It chec

Re: Reliability of metadata in file uri

mrogers — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:39:38 GMT

"The problem is that they lost admin access to the system." Well then the solution is to fix up whatever is broken. Can you not create a temporary adminstrator?

mimetype and size are "reliable".

You also need to take account of versions. There will potentially be more than one version per file.

Re: Reliability of metadata in file uri

titusnachbauer — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:18:12 GMT

Thanks! The problem with the admin access is a bit complicated, this being a very large organisation. I cannot go into the details, but rest assured that I tried to fix that first of course 😉

We are lucky that they made almost no use of versioning. I will tackle that problem when we are going to move the files.