Open Source Document Management System | OpenKM

Hi All,

I'm attempting to upload a lot of pdf's (30,000) in one folder so that the files can be sorted manually and moved to other folders. The repository import works fine, but when I go to open the folder in taxonomy, the screen hangs at "Updating Document List". I understand I have an enormous amount of files, but unfortunately, that is the way it is and changing them manually before repository import would be too big a job. Is there a way I can change the time out time, or get OpenKM to display whatever files it has loaded while it loads the others, or something like that?

I can view all the files in the "Repository View" part of the Administration panel, and that only takes a couple of seconds to load, so it sounds like OpenKM is trying to interact with the files in some way (such as loading OCR text, or something).

Any ideas?

Edit: Actually, it does display, it just takes a very long time to load. This is now a much less critical problem for me. If you want to look into it, go ahead, but if you are too busy, then that is fine too; feel free to close this thread.

Take in consideration displaying 30.000 files into a browser, althought be a table is so much rendering, good taxonomy is having 100 files or something more, with more than 1000 docs per folder you will degradate perfomance ( take in consideration UI has behind javascript that for example allows to ordering files, think in ordering 30000 with javascript).

I think you should ordering in folders outside openkm and then import in proper structure, that's the idea, not uploading all files in one folder and then ordering ... that's not good idea. You could try use webdav with openkm as a network resource too - take a look here http://wiki.openkm.com/index.php/WebDAV_access- ( windows explore view ) and then move files.

WebDAV access-

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I've divided the files up into about 3000 file lots, which displays in a reasonable timeframe. I've tried Webdav in the past, but it was a pain. Maybe I'll have to consider it again...

WebDAV in OpenKM Professinal has some improvement over the Community version, but the problem in your case is the web frontend due to Javascript and browser render speed. In general I don't recommend to store more than 500 documents per folder. If you have more then 500 document, try to divide them in folder by date, for example.

If anyway you persist in the idea of placing 1000 docs in the same folder, try with Firefox 12 or Google Chrome which is faster than other browsers.