Has anyone observed this while upgrading to Notes R6 from R5 →
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Keep a backup of the your existing R5 Bookmark database.
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Upgrade to R6.
Observation:- The bookmark does upgrade to R6 template, but the previous R5 layouts are missing in the Bookmarks. [No documents in the (Layouts) view ]
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Close R6, and Delete bookmark.nsf from R6 data dir.
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Copy back the R5 bookmark.nsf ( backed up in step 1 ) to the R6 Data dir, and launch R6
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The bookmark successfully upgrades to R6 design, with all the previous layouts.
Note: A custom R6 bookmark template was used during upgradation.
Subject: Custom Bookmark Upgrade
I discovered something similar: In some cases we had to start the Notes Client twice to get the bookmark.nsf converted. It then uses then correctly converted settings for the framed version.
Subject: RE: Custom Bookmark Upgrade
Well, I observed something new today …
Before you upgrade the Notes client, modify the following parameters in the R5 notes.ini file ( in addition to other changes which you might be doing ) →
TemplateSetup=6100
Setup=6023
This forces the bookmark.nsf to get upgraded in the first launch itself. I know this is not the right way of doing this, as notes uses these parameters to keep track of the local database design versions…, but it works !
cheers…