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Get files from vault based on list of file names

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:37:18 GMT

Is there a tool available I can use to get a bulk of files from Vault?

The names of the files are listed in a text file. I like to read this list automatically and download all the files, including the childs, on my local workspace.

Best regards,

Maarten Weers

Re: Get files from vault based on list of file names

Richard.Rankin — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:04:28 GMT

Hallo Mr Weers! 🙂

Nice to see you on the forums.

I haven't used it a very long time but Vault Mirror might do what you want.

I'm not sure it can read a list of files though.

Re: Get files from vault based on list of file names

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:34:48 GMT

Hello Richard,

It's a small world at Autodesk. 🙂

Unfortunately Vault Mirror doesn't have the option to read a input list of files to be collected. (Inchluding the children)

Re: Get files from vault based on list of file names

Richard.Rankin — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:49:01 GMT

Hi Maarten,

Sorry about the bad steer to Vault Mirror.

On reflection, you might be able to achieve your goal with no addin.

If you can get the search conditions set correctly, the Vault Clients Advanced Search can be quite powerful.

In this example, I am searching for three specific filenames. (Ball Bearing.ipt, Blade.ipt and Battery Connector.ipt.)

I can use the OR operator to create a string like this "Ball Bearing.ipt" OR "Blade.ipt" OR "Battery Connector.ipt"

(If you have a large number of files, you can use Notepad++ to create a macro to quickly process them into a string.)

The problem is that putting this search into the Advanced Find returns more files than I am looking for.

However, if we change the Vault Servers Slop Factor to 0, it will then only give the exact results.

I can imagine its not perfect, especially if you are dealing with 1,000s of files it is a lot of work. But its preferable to writing your own program I guess.

EDITED

I Forgot to add that you can then just select the files right click and choose "Get".

Re: Get files from vault based on list of file names

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:35:59 GMT

I made a small formula in excel to add all the file names together with an 'OR' into one string.

Then copied the string in the search field in Vault.

Finally select the result, right click and download them.