finding my content

[oceansidejoe]

I am very new to alfresco. I am curios where all of our files are located? I am looking for the harddrive where the file is. For example i assume a file must exist in some directory on some harddrive somewhere in our network: C:\whatever\abc123\heres-all-your-alfresco-content, or \\whatever-computer\whatever-alfresco-stuff\heres-all-your-alfresco-content.

The problem: Our recptionist removed several files from a webdav directory.  I need to restore those files, maybe from tape maybe not. I am wanting to verify the contents of the directory. I cannot determine where that directory is. I am thinking/hoping they are located on our tape backup.  I don't know where to search the tape backup to restore the data. I am unsure where the data is or where it was?  I am looking through the alfresco administration console and expected to see some path pointing to some computer on our network where all the alfresco data is stored. 

Joe.

[loftux]

Have a look at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Configuration
You configure dir.root to where you want your content, if you are not aware of that option your data is most likely using default and stored in a relative path to your startup. Look for alf_data directory. In there you will find the contentstore directory, content is store in folders year/month/day/hour/minute and then as bin files.
When a file is deleted it gets 'orphaned' meaning that is no longer referenced in the database. After a certain number of days it is moved to contentstore.deleted, se http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Store_Configuration

But did your receptionist actually empty the 'deleted items'? Login to the webclient and go to user options, then select 'manage deleted items'. You can most likely recover your files from here. As admin you can see everyones deleted files.

Peter Löfgren