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=eDiscovery=
eDiscovery data dumps are just weird.
In American litigation, documents are given unique serial numbers.
This allows all parties to identify the exact document in question during proceedings.
As you can imagine, this is very labor intensive.
Things got better in 1890 when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_G._Bates Ed Bates] created the first [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_numbering Bates Numbering] machine.
You would stamp a serial number on a document and it would automatically increment the number for the next page.
This idea carried over into the digital world when "documents" became [[Type_Adobe_PDF|PDF]] files, [[Type_Word_Document|Word documents]], text files, etc.
All of a sudden, Bates numbering didn't work so well.
Industry settled on a solution where seized files would be transformed into images, the filename for each image would be the Bates number and a master index file (aka [[Type_eDiscovery_Concordance|concordance]], aka load file) would map the Bates numbers to their original file.
It is ugly and it works.

==eDiscovery Layout==
A typical eDiscovery dump will be a root folder containing a concordance file and sub folders for each volume (<code>VOL00001</code>) of data collected.
Each volume folder will have two sub folders, <code>IMAGES</code> and <code>NATIVES</code>.
They will have many subfolders in them that contain the Bates numbered files.
Here's some sample paths:
<pre>
Prod 01_20250822\20250822.dat
Prod 01_20250822\VOL00001\IMAGES\IMAGES001\DOJ-OGR-00000001.tif
Prod 01_20250822\VOL00001\IMAGES\IMAGES002\DOJ-OGR-00002936.jpg
Prod 01_20250822\VOL00001\NATIVES\NATIVE006\DOJ-OGR-00015624.MP4
</pre>

=eDiscovery Load=
Simply load the concordance file and Truxton will process it, then load all of the images and native files.
The original structure of the files and folders will be replaced with information from the concordance file.
Truxton will create a folder for each original file specified in the concordance and put the files that match the given Bates number range beneath it.
This will associate the Bates files with their origins.

<source lang="bat">
cd Prod 01_20250822
load.exe 20250822.dat
</source>

==Example==
The <code>20250822.dat</code> concordance file mapped Bates numbers <code>DOJ-OGR-00002935</code> to <code>DOJ-OGR-00003173</code> to a file named <code>204.pdf</code>.
Each page of the PDF was extracted as an image file (usually a [[Type_JPEG|JPG]] or [[Type_TIFF|TIFF]]).
When the folder structure above is loaded, the <code>Prod 01_20250822\VOL00001\IMAGES\IMAGES002\DOJ-OGR-00002936.jpg</code> file will appear with the path <code>Root - 20250822.dat\204.pdf\DOJ-OGR-00002936.jpg</code>

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 The <code>20250822.dat</code> concordance file mapped Bates numbers <code>DOJ-OGR-00002935</code> to <code>DOJ-OGR-00003173</code> to a file named <code>204.pdf</code>.
 Each page of the PDF was extracted as an image file (usually a [[Type_JPEG|JPG]] or [[Type_TIFF|TIFF]]).
-When the folder structure above is loaded, the <code>Prod 01_20250822\VOL00001\IMAGES\IMAGES002\DOJ-OGR-00002936.jpg</code> file will appear with the path <code>Root - 20250822.dat\204.pdf\DOJ-OGR-00002936.jpg</code>
+When the folder structure above is loaded, the <code>Prod 01_20250822\VOL00001\IMAGES\IMAGES002\DOJ-OGR-00002936.jpg</code> file will appear in Truxton with the path <code>Root - 20250822.dat\204.pdf\DOJ-OGR-00002936.jpg</code>

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