TPIF

A Truxton Portable Investigation File (TPIF) contains the metadata associated with media in Truxton. It will optionally contain the contents of the files referenced in the metadata.

Format

A TPIF is a Zip file that contains the metadata from the tables in the database associated with media. It will optionally contain the unique file contents of any file referenced in the meta data.

Metadata

The format of the metadata in the TPIF is Postgres Bulk Insert Binary format. This is the smallest and fastest way to get data into Postgres. The name of the file in the TPIF corresponds to the name of the table in the database. Filename extensions are ignored.

File Contents

If the creator of the TPIF chose to export the referenced files, only the unique contents will be present in the TPIF. These will be present in the _content folder in the root of the TPIF.