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)
  1. After installing FTK Central and upgrading the database, stop the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service
  2. Navigate to the Forensic Tools BIN folder (typically "[drive]:\Program Files\AccessData\Forensic Tools\[version]\bin")
  3. Rename the existing PDFConvertor.exe to PDFConvertor.exe.old
  4. Download the new PDFConvertor.exe from https://tenant1.hostedftp.com/JUamf5f6jbDuJUPKXgUfXkXTt and place it in the Forensic Tools BIN folder
  5. Start the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service


To convert coordinate-based redactions to FTK Central's format, please do the following:

  1. After installing FTK Central and upgrading the database, stop the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service
  2. Navigate to the Forensic Tools BIN folder (typically "[drive]:\Program Files\AccessData\Forensic Tools\[version]\bin")
  3. Run AnnotationMigration.exe
  4. Wait for the tool to report completion
  5. 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:

  1. After installing FTK Central and upgrading the database, stop the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service
  2. Navigate to the Forensic Tools BIN folder (typically "[drive]:\Program Files\AccessData\Forensic Tools\[version]\bin")
  3. Run DocumentGroupMigration.exe
  4. Wait for the tool to report completion
  5. Start the AccessData Exterro Self Host Service

Any logs produced by the DocumentGroupMigration tool will be located in "%public%\Documents\AccessData\AccessDataLogs".