Navigating the Drive

This page provides examples of the Media ID folder structures you may encounter when
surveying Electronic Records at your workstation. These examples should help you
understand what folders contain collection material, what folders contain metadata,
and when there might be a transfer issue.

  • Working files collection folder with ACQ Media ID folders within (tree view)
    working files folder
  • ACQ Media ID folders within working files collection folder (folder view)
    ACQ IDs in working files folder
  • Contents of metadata folder for optical media transfers, cd-info and transfer logs
    cd-info and transfer logs
  • Rsync metadata folder (empty)
    empty Rsync metadata folder
  • Remote transfer metadata folder (md5.txt checksum file)
    remote transfer metadata folder
  • Objects folder containing collection material
    objects folder with collection material
  • Objects folder containing system files
    objects folder with .DS_Store
  • Bagit folder tree with data folder (collection material within data folder)
    data folder
  • Contents of ACQ ID bag folder (metadata files created by bagit)
    bagit metadata