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Attach GroupWise 4 Archives

Hello, I have a set of GroupWise 4 archives that are orphaned. They belonged to a different GroupWise Post Office and that PO does not exist, anymore. I have a test GroupWise 8 server. Is there a way to attach the GroupWise verson 4 archives to an existing account and then open those archives? Thank you.

deroode

You should be able to open the archive with a Groupwise client in Remote mode. See also this question:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23620853/Can-I-import-old-GW-Archives-into-Outlook-without-running-Groupwise.html

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jhieb

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Hi ZEN... yes, your approach works and it is one I use. I did not think that I would be able to open the archives since they were so old. But, I was wrong about that. The editor worked fine and I was able to attach them into GroupWise.

Once the archives were attached to the test account, I un-archived all the messages. Then, used Transend Migrator to convert those messages to PST file. Instead of using the GroupWise API, I used the IMAP protocol. It was more stable and the migration went a lot faster. Behind the scenes, I imagine there are some metadata issues causing the GroupWise API not to be a migration choice. Therefore, for anyone else doing this, Transend Migrator is the best conversion tool for Archives and you must use the IMAP protocol if you want a good clean conversion of problem archived data.

www.transend.com

PS: These archives could not be opened using Remote Mode. Therefore, they must be attached to a test GroupWise account.