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Duplicate File Prevention

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I am finding a lot of threads and post about people wanting to prevent duplicate files from being imported into M-Files, but many of them are from over a year ago and everyone has a different semi-solution.

What is the best modern solution to prevent employees from submitting duplicate files?

At this point, even preventing them from uploading files with the same file name would be good enough to prevent some of the mistakes.

Thank You,
Royce
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    There are many programs like CCleaner that has a sufficient method of detecting file duplicates before being imported, but the idea is to compare the files to objects already in the vault. In a business environment, it needs to be simplified for office workers. We need to compare objects in the vault to the file we are trying to add into the vault on a daily basis on dozens of devices to prevent duplicate files from being imported, and it cannot be something like a script that they need to run themselves.

    The mass import should be done within a few weeks. We decided to go with the M-Files Mass Importer software that will take the metadata from our previous document management software within a CSV sheet and all of the documents to combine into the vault. It does not really solve the duplicate problem while trying to compare files being imported to the objects already imported, but it is a start.
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  • Former Member
    Former Member
    There are many programs like CCleaner that has a sufficient method of detecting file duplicates before being imported, but the idea is to compare the files to objects already in the vault. In a business environment, it needs to be simplified for office workers. We need to compare objects in the vault to the file we are trying to add into the vault on a daily basis on dozens of devices to prevent duplicate files from being imported, and it cannot be something like a script that they need to run themselves.

    The mass import should be done within a few weeks. We decided to go with the M-Files Mass Importer software that will take the metadata from our previous document management software within a CSV sheet and all of the documents to combine into the vault. It does not really solve the duplicate problem while trying to compare files being imported to the objects already imported, but it is a start.
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