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tmurray1
Level 5
9 years ago

Compressed Files - Are they converted and indexed?

Hello.  Thinking about compressed (.zip, .tar, .7z, .RAR) files as an email attachment or archived as part of a FSA run.  Are compressed files unzipped converted and indexed?  These particular file types are not listed in the ExcludedFileTypesFromConversion registry key.

 

Regards,

Tammy

Enterprise Vault
Information Governance
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • AndrewB's avatar
    AndrewB
    9 years ago

    Enterprise Vault Converters leverages Oracle Outside-In technologies in order to convert messages, files and attachments to text and html formats for indexing purposes. according to the documentation i pulled up for Oracle Outside-In:

    7z (BZIP2 and split archives not supported)
    7z Self Extracting exe (BZIP2 and split archives not supported)
    LZA Self Extracting Compress
    LZH Compress
    Microsoft Office Binder - 95 – 97
    Microsoft Cabinet (CAB)
    RAR - 1.5, 2.0, 2.9
    Self-extracting .exe
    UNIX Compress
    UNIX GZip
    UNIX tar
    Uuencode
    Zip - PKZip
    Zip - WinZip

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  • AndrewB's avatar
    AndrewB
    Moderator
    9 years ago

    Enterprise Vault Converters leverages Oracle Outside-In technologies in order to convert messages, files and attachments to text and html formats for indexing purposes. according to the documentation i pulled up for Oracle Outside-In:

    7z (BZIP2 and split archives not supported)
    7z Self Extracting exe (BZIP2 and split archives not supported)
    LZA Self Extracting Compress
    LZH Compress
    Microsoft Office Binder - 95 – 97
    Microsoft Cabinet (CAB)
    RAR - 1.5, 2.0, 2.9
    Self-extracting .exe
    UNIX Compress
    UNIX GZip
    UNIX tar
    Uuencode
    Zip - PKZip
    Zip - WinZip

  • tmurray1's avatar
    tmurray1
    Level 5
    9 years ago

    Thank you for responding.  The compressed files I asked about are supported by Oracles's Outside-In technology (8.4.0 as I am running EV 10.0.4 CHF3).  For journal archiving I receive many converter warnings.  When it is a compressed file the reason is usually 'The converted content is too large to process'. I would think that archive or compressed file would be relatively large.  Seems this is working as designed.

     

    Regards,

    Tammy

  • AndrewB's avatar
    AndrewB
    Moderator
    9 years ago

    glad i could help. can you mark the solution so others with the same question know which post helped you find the answer?