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Issues with many (10_000s) of docs / folder?

dsmith
Champ on-the-rise
Champ on-the-rise
Alfresco version : 5.0.c Community, Share

I'm wondering if there are any known issues with storing large numbers of documents in a given folder with the default installation using PostgreSQL.  Total number of docs is likely in the range of 10-20k.

My use case: creation of a metadata searchable archive of (mostly handwritten, non-indexable) TIFF documents.  Once the users have entered the metadata, the documents will only be retrieved by search, not by directly browsing the folder structure.

Currently planned implementation: documents imported, users enter metadata, documents are sent to a folder for QC, then moved to a final archive folder.

Plan if this will cause issues: create a custom action type that extracts the year and month from the document date, and moves the document to a corresponding yyyy/mm folder structure (or creates the folder if it doesn't exist).  We know this will result in folders with less than a few hundred documents each.

Thanks for any help.  If this is an issue and my backup plan is flawed, I'd appreciate any feedback if there is a more efficient or just plain better way to move the documents to final storage.
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mitpatoliya
Star Collaborator
Star Collaborator
It is defiantly not recommended to store around 10 to 20 K documents under one folder.
The approach of segregating them based on yyyy/mm seems to be best suited in your situation.

dsmith
Champ on-the-rise
Champ on-the-rise
Thank you. Since posting this I have discovered how nicely put-together the JavaScript API is. It looks like the yyyy/mm rule action will be trivial to implement (or really, any dynamic folder creation based on metadata).