Index Multimedia

Before you begin

Heurist sets the location of the media folders (Filestore) by default. The Filestore folder is located on the server on which Heurist is running.

You may need to consult with your system administrator to find out the location of the database Filestore and to get access to copy folders to it.

To view or specify another location for the media folder, go to Administration | Advanced Properties | Locations. In the Additional folder(s) containing files for indexing field, enter the folder address.

Note. The folders to be indexed must be writeable by the PHP system; normally they should be owned by 'nobody'.

To set the extensions to scan, update the File extensions to index field.

To import multimedia files

1. Drop the folder or folders of files to be imported into the Filestore media folder (see Before You Begin above).
2. Select Database | Import | Index Multimedia.

The Filestore media folder location is indicated in the Folders to Scan field. To specify another location for the media folder, or updaet the file extensions to index, click Click here to set media folders.

3. Click Continue.

Heurist will scan the folder(s) designated, and any child folders, and add any files discovered to the database as Digital Media Objects. The file path, name, extension, size, MD5 checksum and date are extracted.

In addition, if metadata has been created for the files using FieldHelper (FieldHelper.org) this metadata (including geographic location) will be imported into the record.

Error messages

You may get warnings and error messages such as:

• Folder is not writeable. Check permissions. If you get a red 'Folder is not writeable' message, your system administrator will need to change the ownership of the folder.
• 485 entries in manifest ignored. The indicated number of entries ignored is simply the number of files which were previously imported and are therefore ignored by this import.

(See also Advanced Properties).

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