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I can’t say I’m familiar with the software, but it sounds to me like they’re obfuscating the path to slow people who might try scraping the archive It’s likely that the number is in the database, but it might also be a value that’s computed based on other information in the record But before you go and dig through the code, you might have another solution .... just looking at the file system. If it’s mounted on a Unix-like system you could get a directory report with either ‘du’ (disk usage), a recursive directory listing (‘ls -r’ or ‘ls -R’ depending on the implementation), or ‘find’ for normal files (‘find directory_to_search -type f’) Of course, then you have to either move the files out of the random directory (or symlink them), or take that report, extract the info and merge it with your database dump If I were to try to do it mostly looking from the database side f things, I would grab a few records (‘select * from TABLE limit 5’) And then look for fields with numbers in them that look out of place -Joe Ps. Note to self: Typing Unix commands on a fake keyboard with autocorrect really sucks Sent from a mobile device with a crappy on screen keyboard and obnoxious "autocorrect" > On Sep 27, 2020, at 5:43 PM, Fitchett, Deborah <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Kia ora, > > On the off-chance anyone's familiar with (Open)Equella (it's essentially abandonware so the ex-vendor's no help, I get error messages when looking for the community Google Group, and the only documentation I can find helpfully has a page linked from the text "Why does the openEQUELLA schema make no sense?"<https://openequella.github.io/tutorials/reporting/SchemaDesign.html> which is at least reassuring that it's not just me!) > > I need to migrate out of Equella into another system. I've created a report in the SQL database to extract the metadata for the items I need - but I also need their files, so I want the filepath on the server. > > The files are named with the attachment name (which I have), inside a directory named with the item id (which I have), inside another directory named with a pseudo-random number - ranging from about 0 to about 160, from memory. I'm hoping this number is stored somewhere in the SQL database - but I haven't been able to find *where*. Help? > > (I do have other directions I could approach this from but nothing's obviously *easy* and I'm not sure of the capacity of the people who actually have server access, so, just, argh. Migrations.) > > Deborah > > ________________________________ > > "The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system."