FileCabinet CS reaches end-of-life on December 31, 2027, and every firm on it has to move its archive somewhere. For firms using Box as their document store, Box is a natural destination. Liscio will extract your FileCabinet CS archive and deliver it organized, with your original folder structure and file names intact, in a secure location that makes it easy to move into Box. There is no requirement to subscribe to Liscio to complete the move. Learn how Liscio’s FileCabinet CS migration service works.
First, the files have to come out of FileCabinet CS properly
FileCabinet CS does not store documents as files in folders. It holds them as page objects in a legacy OLE Structured Storage format, so each document has to be reconstituted into a usable PDF before it can go anywhere. A raw export also strips the folder organization you see on screen. (Full detail here.) This is true no matter which destination you pick, and it is the part firms underestimate.
What Liscio does that a file transfer does not
Box’s governance and retention features work on files as they arrive. If those files come in as a raw FileCabinet CS export with the folder organization stripped out, your retention and permission policies have nothing meaningful to key on. Liscio keeps your client folders and folder structure intact and cleans up file names, so your Box policies and search start from an archive your staff already recognize.
That is the through-line across every destination we support: your archive arrives in the structure your staff already know. Want every document classified and renamed to your firm’s standard too? We can add that as a custom build, and it is built in when Liscio is your destination. See all destinations for the full list.
Why Box as your destination
Box is a common choice for firms that want enterprise-grade permissions, retention, and compliance controls on their document store. Migrating your FileCabinet CS archive into Box puts a decade of client history under the same governance rules you already apply to everything else, without standing up a separate system to hold it.
How the migration works
- Liscio extracts your FileCabinet CS archive and reconstitutes each document into a complete, readable PDF.
- Your folder structure and file names are preserved, with double extensions, naming conflicts, and characters the destination does not allow cleaned up.
- Liscio runs a quality check and delivers the organized archive in a secure location, ready for you to move into Box.
- Your files are yours, in Box, with no ongoing Liscio subscription required.
Ready to move your files out of FileCabinet CS?
Liscio delivers your archive organized, with your folder structure intact, so moving it into Box is simple.
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