Applies to: Everyone
The steps below will help you verify the integrity of your Intralinks archive (or determine if someone potentially altered the archive's contents / structure after Intralinks shipped it to you).
Note: This process only verifies the integrity of the Documents folder on the archive and not the other content.
Important notes
- This process is supported only on Windows computers.
- We highly recommend working directly with your internal IT team to complete the process, since the steps require administrator rights on your system.
Steps
- Open the IL-Info drive on your archive.
- Locate the il_hashdir.exe executable file and copy it to your Desktop.
- Next, open the encrypted archive partition with the password you received from Intralinks. Be sure that you can view the contents of the Documents folder.
- Click the Windows Start icon or search icon on your computer and type Windows PowerShell.
- In the results list, right-click on Windows PowerShell and choose Run as administrator.
- The PowerShell window opens and displays a prompt. Type the following in the window, replacing the bracketed text with your network username: cd C:\Users\<your network username>\Desktop
- Press Enter.
- The prompt should change to the directory you specified.
- Next, locate the path of the Documents folder on the archive.
For example: F:\Documents - In the PowerShell window, type the following and replace the bracketed text with the archive Documents folder path: .\il_hashdir.exe <path to the Documents folder in the archive>
Using the example path from step 9: .\il_hashdir.exe F:\Documents - Press Enter.
- After a few moments, the PowerShell window will display a hash value (a long, alphanumerical string of characters).
- Copy the hash value and paste it into a blank text editor file.
- Next, go back to the IL-Info drive on your archive.
- Locate the <archivename>.tamperProof file and open it in a text editor.
- Compare the hash value in this file against the value you copied in step 13.
- If the values match exactly, the Documents folder of the archive was not changed since it was created. You can be confident that no one has tampered with the Documents folder of the archive.