Mac

Prerequisites

Download and install .NET SDK 8.0 for your platform.

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For newer M series Macs download the Arm64 version, for older Intel Macs download the x64 version

If you wish to use the Video Plugin to process videos, you must download FFmpeg for your system.

You can also install FFmpeg using homebrew.

brew update
brew install ffmpeg

This will likely install FFmpeg into the location

/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg

Use this location during the configuration step.

FileFlows App packages

From the FileFlows directory open a terminal into the "Server" subfolder

dotnet FileFlows.Server.dll

FileFlows should now be accessible from http://localhost19200/ or http://[host]19200/

tip

Note if you have a conflict with port 5000, see the Custom Port Guide.

To run a FileFlows node, open a terminal into the "Node" subfolder

dotnet FileFlows.Node.dll

This will exit immediately but created a fileflows.config file in the Data subdirectory.

Edit that file and set the server information

{
  "ServerUrl": "http://[fileflow-server]19200/",
  "TempPath": "/fileflows-path/temp"
}

Name	Variable
ServerUrl	The URL of the FileFlows Server. For example http://tower19200/
TempPath	The temporary path when files will be saved on the Node.

Save the configuration and run the node once again

dotnet FileFlows.Node.dll

The node will now be running and can be stopped pressing the Escape key.

If using FFmpeg, you must set the installation path on the Variables page.

Name	Variable	Description
Name	ffmpeg	The name of the variable, this is case insensitive
Value	/usr/bin/ffmpeg	The path to your FFmpeg instance

tip

You maybe able to use the whereis command to locate ffmpeg

whereis ffmpeg