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How not to duplicate files in alfresco share site

ras_shurik — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:44:15 GMT

Hi everyone.I'm newby in Alfresco product. I have just installed alfresco community 4.2.e as it's the latest version. Created a share site. And now I have several folders in document library. So the case is that I need the same file to be in more then one folder and escape duplicating files. Now, wh

Re: How not to duplicate files in alfresco share site

afaust — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:31:16 GMT

Hello,

de-duplication is not a feature built-in with Alfresco. You would need to implement your own de-duplication logic if you want to avoid duplicate files.
At the last Alfresco Summit hackathon, some community members and myself worked on a project to avoid de-duplication in some parts of Alfresco (not all - you would still see two files in Share, but the file would only be stored once). That might be a good place to start for a developer (https://github.com/AFaust/content-stores). Since you posted this in the end user forum, I reckon that this might be more than what you were looking for. Unfortunately, I do not know of a ready-to-use solution in the community for your problem.

Regards
Axel

Re: How not to duplicate files in alfresco share site

ras_shurik — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:04:30 GMT

Thanks, Alex.

That is kind of challenge. I also installed a record management module. RM module has a capability "link to", which is usefull for not to duplicate records in RM site. Maybe I can somehow move this capability to share site?

Thanks

Re: How not to duplicate files in alfresco share site

ras_shurik — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:05:20 GMT