FileCabinet CS reaches end-of-life on December 31, 2027, and every firm on it has to move its archive somewhere. For firms running Dropbox Business, Dropbox 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 Dropbox. 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

Dropbox syncs and shares whatever you put in it, organized or not. Drop a raw FileCabinet CS export in and you have synced a mess. Liscio keeps your client folders and folder structure intact and cleans up file names, so what syncs across your team is the organized archive your staff already know.

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 Dropbox as your destination

For firms already standardized on Dropbox Business, Dropbox is the destination that requires no new tooling and no change to how staff already sync and share files. Your FileCabinet CS archive keeps its folder structure, so it moves into the Dropbox your team lives in, accessible from every device they already have set up.

How the migration works

  1. Liscio extracts your FileCabinet CS archive and reconstitutes each document into a complete, readable PDF.
  2. Your folder structure and file names are preserved, with double extensions, naming conflicts, and characters the destination does not allow cleaned up.
  3. Liscio runs a quality check and delivers the organized archive in a secure location, ready for you to move into Dropbox.
  4. Your files are yours, in Dropbox, 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 Dropbox is simple.

See how Liscio’s FileCabinet CS file transfer service works →

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