DROID on a shared drive
kathaurielle opened this issue · 1 comments
Hello, please could you advise this person? Sorry to ask.
I am currently testing whether DROID will fit within our digital ingest workflow.
Most of the content that we would like to run DROID reports on is stored within a depository on a shared network, which I access through a folder shortcut on my local device.
Having read the DROID user guide, I am still unclear on if it is possible to create a DROID profile for folders such as this, that aren’t stored locally, and I am having mixed results when testing DROID myself.
When run through the GUI, a pop-up appears saying “the following folders cannot be added as they are not from the file system: [address of the folder shortcut]” and I am unable to add the folder to a profile. However, when running DROID through the command line, if I run DROID on a folder within the shared network, I can do so only in no profile mode (using the “-nr” function) which results in the output directly in the command line. I am also only able to do this within one folder level, as it fails if there are sub-folders.
I was hoping you could provide some guidance on if there is a way to work around the problem with the GUI, as ideally, we would like to run full profiles on the folders in the shared drive. I am also struggling to get the command line no profile mode to export to CSV, which according to the user guide, should be possible.
It might be worth the user coming to this board so we can talk directly with them. It would be useful to know whether they are using drag-drop or browsing to the folder. I've just tried this with a shared network folder and it worked fine for me, and it's a very common way of people using DROID. It would also be good to know some detail about the version and platform of DROID they are using. Can they supply a copy/paste or screenshot of the Help-About box (if they are running a recent version of DROID) or could they re-try on the most recent version if not