Archive Failed, Special Database Object cannot be located

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I am trying to archive a restored mail db to a current copy of the mail db to merge the boxes together. But, when I run the archive, I receive the Archive Failed, Special Database Object cannot be found error message. I have searched and can’t find anything on this error, is there anyone out there that has found a solution? Thanks for any help.Tim LaPosa

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Subject: Archive Failed, Special Database Object cannot be located

have you again resaved the setting for archive ,see that path of the archive database is same in archive setting

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Subject: RE: Archive Failed, Special Database Object cannot be located

Thanks, I did check that and it is correct.

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Subject: Archive Failed, Special Database Object cannot be located

Do both the db’s need to be in the \mail directory? I have the restored db in a \restored directory. Thanks

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Subject: RE: Archive Failed, Special Database Object cannot be located

Nope, as long as the path in the archive settings is correct the archive db can be anywhere, even on another server.

I had this phenomenon a few times. The archive settings (a profile doc) might be corrupt.

I resolved the issue by deleting the archive profile and reconfiguring the archive settings again.

Send the user a button with the following code for him to delete his archive profile.

Sub Click(Source As Button)

Dim session As New NotesSession 

Dim db As NotesDatabase 

Set db = session.CurrentDatabase 

Set profile=db.GetProfileDocument("Archive Profile") 

Call profile.remove(True)

Print "Archive profile removed"

End Sub

Hope this helps

Patrick

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Subject: RE: Archive Failed, Special Database Object cannot be located

Thanks for the response, but since I am a Notes Admin/caretaker and not a Notes developer, I am not sure how to send a button. But I do appreciate the response.