subject: What To Do When The Migration Wizard Fails? [print this page] As a matter of fact, Lotus Notes and MS Outlook are the two most prominent and well established email clients across the globe. A number of reasons have made the migration between emails clients immensely popular and the need of the hour. As a matter of fact, MS Outlook to Lotus Notes and the vice versa conversion is very popular
Microsoft has provided Migration Wizard, an inbuilt utility to its users to help them easily and effectively export NSF to PST conversion. However, there are times when this Microsoft inbuilt utility, the Migration Wizard stops responding and completely fails to migrate Lotus Notes to MS Outlook email client.
Let us suppose a practical working scenario wherein you are trying to migrate from the Lotus Notes email client to Outlook email client. The Migration Wizard (Mailmig.exe) might just stop responding or lets say simply crashes with an access violation (AV) (Exception: c0000005) in the nNOTES.dll file.
Now lets figure out the root cause behind the occurrence of the aforementioned error message.
The reason behind the above mentioned error message is that the Lotus Notes mailbox contains a corrupted email.
In more detail, we can say that when the Migration Wizard attempts to migrate a mailbox data item that is being corrupted to the Outlook email client, two Lotus Notes dlls, the Nxrtf.dll and Nnotes.dll files leads the Mailbox Migration Wizard to become unresponsive.
To resolve the aforementioned error message, you need to first of all, remove all the emails and other data items from the Notes mailbox that are causing the issue and then re run the Migration Wizard. To achieve this, you need to perform the below mentioned steps:
1.Start the Windows Explorer.
2.Search the temporary folder used by the Migration Wizard.
3.Open the newest folder that was created by the Mailbox Migration Wizard.
4.Find the last numbered file.
5.Using the notepad, open the corresponding PRI file.
6.From the Lotus Notes mailbox, remove the unsuccessful processed email that follows this last email in the PRI file.
7.Restart the Mailbox Migration Wizard.
By taking up the aforementioned steps, you would be able to successfully and flawlessly resolve the issue.
However, just in case the issue is still not resolved, our suggestion to you would be to use a professional, prudent, powerful and at the same time a proficient export Notes to PST conversion tool to Export NSF to PST files.
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