A few posts back I put out instructions on how to drain off some of your email and folders from the main Lotus Notes server into a Lotus Notes archive. This single activity allowed you to clean up your Lotus Notes database while keeping those important documents for posterity, or for evidence of a job completed.
As shown in these three plates, you can set up the archive to be placed anywhere you want. In this particular example, the archive went to a folder under “My Documents”.
I called the folder “notesarchive” and the actual archive archivedayton because I wanted to put all of my Dayton related email into that location. In fact, I put everything that was in my “Dayton” email folder into this archive.
To make things more interesting, after archiving everything in my “Dayton” folder, I could go back and create a new archive called “archivecolumbus”. I would create it in the same fashion to hold all of my email from my “Columbus” email folder.
If I had done this, the end result would have been two archive files – one called archivedayton.nsf and the other called archivecolumbus.nsf. Each one holding all of the Lotus Notes records from the respective folder that was in my lotus notes database.
Here’s the kicker. I can now take those two files and move them to a USB drive if I want. Simply cuttting and pasting will do, as well as a dragging and dropping.
The only hitch is that in order for me to open them, you will need a machine with a properly installed Lotus Notes client. That way when you double click the archive, the client will automatically launch and open the archive file, even if it’s on the USB drive.
Hence the reason for the Google Apps migration. No 3rd party applications required. And I get 7 GB of email storage to boot.
Hi, Ok – but how about this: I have saved my emails from my college work and now I want to open them at home. Those emails are full of my ideas, work w collaborators, etc and are my intellectual property (sic ; I am a scientist working at a public university). The college helped me set up IMAP import into gmail – but very oddly (they cannot explain it) many (~ 30% maybe) of my emails are not transferred by IMAP. Hence the need for making the archive and now accessing it. I do not have Lotus Notes on my home PC. How then can I open my own email archive? Thank you in advance (and feel free to verify that a scientists emails at a public univ we no financial interests – I do basic research, evolution- is my intellectual property if you doubt my words).