topic Re: Large Folders in the Content Repository in Alfresco Forum

Large Folders in the Content Repository

resplin — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:53:54 GMT

When putting a lot of content into the Alfresco Content Repository, it is necessary to decide how to manage large folders. In this discussion, I collect information on this topic in a public location where people can easily find it.BackgroundAn Alfresco folder (or container more generally) can conta

Re: Large Folders in the Content Repository

cristinamr — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:32:57 GMT

Really nice, Richard! Thanks to share it 😉

Re: Large Folders in the Content Repository

afaust — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 22:29:28 GMT

Looking forward to the day Alfresco will heed this advice and not put archived items / version history nodes in one big, flat list...

Re: Large Folders in the Content Repository

jpotts — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 01:44:25 GMT

This is a very helpful page, Richard, thanks for putting it together.

In case folks are curious about the impact that a "large folder" has on Alfresco Share, here are a couple of observations:

1. Share will truncate document lists to 1000. The biggest impact this has is the inability to choose a folder in a "copy to" or "move to" dialog due to the truncated list.

2. Browsing is also a bit problematic. There is essentially no way to browse to a folder that is significantly "deep" in the list. However, search is a decent workaround for this. For example, if you need to go to the 9999th folder you can search for "test folder 9999" and it'll show up in the search results.

These observations are based on a 5.2.e repo with Share 5.2.d and a Share site with a document library that contains 10,000 folders at the same level (immediate children of the documentLibrary).