Migration to Alfresco

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javid

hi,
im new to alfresco i need to migrate contents from a network drive to alfresco repository how can it be done and what are the various methodologies to migrate from or transfer the contents automatically or manually with the metadata's intact pl reply as early as possible

mrogers

If your content is already on a network drive the easiest way is to copy in the files via CIFS or FTP. 

As for metadata,  what sort of meta-data are you talking about.  And where is it stored?

In general if you have data in one content store and wish to transfer it into Alfresco then you will need to add some sort of translation unitity that takes the data and inserts it into Alfresco.   You will probably also want to do content modeling to describe your data.     The starting point for this is some analysis of your existing data. to see what you you have and want you want to keep.