Frog3 File Download

[WJWB]

Hi All,

 

We're trying to get a zip file of all our shared documents out of Frog 3. In Frog there's the option for us to export folders as a zip file but this has a 200mb limit on it and the file has to be downloaded after being zipped. Given the size of some of the folders there has to be an easier way of getting this out!

 

Frog support are being helpful as aways , and refusing to give us the files we're asking for in a zip. The "main reason we cannot do this is because we don’t want it to be almost a huge file drop of information that will not be used/ looked at/ needed in FrogLearn" so it would seem to me quite clear that this is not a technical limitation for Frog, merely an political one. We've explained that the files currently on Frog 3 are going to move to a network shared drive so that we can retire frog 3 and move over fully to FrogOS.

 

Any help or advice would be great,

 

Thanks

Edited October 13, 2015 by WJWB

[soapyfish]

I would look at the files that are stored where ever your frogbackup directory is kept, and search for the file by size rather than by name

[Steve21]

They are all stored in a local folder within the linux OS, the only problem is not by filename, and only be ID (Filenames are hidden away in other referenced areas which I can't find currently, probably in their SQL etc ) as we had this problem when one of our HDDs died in our server before.

 

And as you said Frog refuses to help with it. 100,000 files by ID aren't gonna be fun to sort haha

 

Seems they used to but as so many people dropping them they don't want people to export anymore

 

Steve

[Steve21]

I would look at the files that are stored where ever your frogbackup directory is kept, and search for the file by size rather than by name

 

The backup apparently only stores the config etc, none of the files as I asked them that before. e.g. If you server dies it's no help at all It's more a "oh I did something silly, lets restore settings"

 

Steve

[soapyfish]

It was backing up the user email as well when we used that.

[MicrodigitUK]

They are all stored in a local folder within the linux OS, the only problem is not by filename, and only be ID (Filenames are hidden away in other referenced areas which I can't find currently, probably in their SQL etc ) as we had this problem when one of our HDDs died in our server before.

 

And as you said Frog refuses to help with it. 100,000 files by ID aren't gonna be fun to sort haha

 

Seems they used to but as so many people dropping them they don't want people to export anymore

 

Steve

 

You can use the frog3 API to pull all of the folder structure and file names out of the frog database and rebuild the original file structure. All of the exports or backed up files are named by there database IDs that link back to the real names and file structure in the internal frog3 database. webfiles brick just shows the file name from DB and then links to the file ID to download. The files are only saved in the servers file system as IDs and all names are striped on upload and stored in the frog3 database.

 

api.webfiles

api.webfilesfolder

 

Unfortunately for some reason the above webfiles api documentation has been removed from the following page:

 

http://frog3fdp.frogcommunity.com/api

 

think frog don't want people to export their files from their old system for some strange reason.

 

I am willing to help people export the file names and structure but time is ££££