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What sort of database is and how to open Folderwatcher.db

  • 30 June 2021
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Hello,

 

How can I open and look in the Folderwatcher.db thats created on clients for monitoring file anomaly.

//Henrik

 

Snipped from documentation:

Up to 30 days of file activities are maintained in a database (Folderwatcher.db) on the client computer for use by the monitoring algorithm.

https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=7879_1.htm

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Best answer by Blaine Williams 30 June 2021, 12:34

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It is SQLLite Database.  Curious on why you would like to open the DB and check .  are you looking to see 30 days activity .  we have dashboard which shows this information

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Hi Henrik, 

You can use sql lite db viewer to open it. 

I hope this helps

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@Swarna I was curious to see if there was any information on what type of change was made to the files.

It’s unclear to me what triggers a file change to be added to the database.

Whilest 20000 modified files in a directory is somewhat informative, it’s kind of hard to tell if it’s a legit change (probably is) without more details.

 

//Henke

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Hi, Anyone can share an example to open this db and check the information that this file include?

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i was able to open the FOlderWatcher.db fiile using the GUI tool from https://sqlitebrowser.org/dl/,

 

but the strange thing is that the table FileIOInfo has in the table-field = Path a value of “\” for all entries in this table. i thought i would fine the actual file path and file name in this field so to be able to identify which files have been changed.

 

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