DROID on a shared drive

[kathaurielle]

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.

[steve-daly]

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