Annotations
FTK Central uses a different viewer and format to store redactions. Coordinate-based redactions can be converted to work with FTK Central, but test-based redactions cannot.
IMPORTANT: Forensic Tool 7.5.2.173 requires a different version of PDFConvertor.exe for the AnnotationMigration tool to work. Otherwise, you will get "ASPOSE error" messages and see errors like the following in the AnnotationMigration log:
Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'Aspose.PDF, Version=19.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=716fcc553a201e56' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) at PDFConvertor.Program.Main(String[] args)
- After installing FTK Central and upgrading the database, stop the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service
- Navigate to the Forensic Tools BIN folder (typically "[drive]:\Program Files\AccessData\Forensic Tools\[version]\bin")
- Rename the existing PDFConvertor.exe to PDFConvertor.exe.old
- Download the new PDFConvertor.exe from https://tenant1.hostedftp.com/JUamf5f6jbDuJUPKXgUfXkXTt and place it in the Forensic Tools BIN folder
- Start the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service
To convert coordinate-based redactions to FTK Central's format, please do the following:
- After installing FTK Central and upgrading the database, stop the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service
- Navigate to the Forensic Tools BIN folder (typically "[drive]:\Program Files\AccessData\Forensic Tools\[version]\bin")
- Run AnnotationMigration.exe
- Wait for the tool to report completion
- Start the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service
Any logs produced by the AnnotationMigration tool will be located in "%public%\Documents\AccessData\AccessDataLogs".
Document Groups
FTK Central does not support Document Groups, so they must be converted to Labels instead.
To convert all Document Groups to Labels, please do the following:
- After installing FTK Central and upgrading the database, stop the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service
- Navigate to the Forensic Tools BIN folder (typically "[drive]:\Program Files\AccessData\Forensic Tools\[version]\bin")
- Run DocumentGroupMigration.exe
- Wait for the tool to report completion
- Start the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service
Any logs produced by the DocumentGroupMigration tool will be located in "%public%\Documents\AccessData\AccessDataLogs".