I’m a user of a shared mailbox… one of the folders (containing about 3,500 mails and 60 subfolders) was accidentally deleted three days ago. The Techies have provided a backup of the mailbox from a few days ago and I want to be able to import the folder and all of the subfolders in isolation (I don’t want to overwrite the other folders ihn the shared box). I’ve tried exporting and importing, but this only seems to handle one folder (or a few files) at a time… is there a way of importing the whole folder and all of the subfolders in one go?
if only the folders were deleted then the e-mails (documents) should still be in the database. Sometimes you can magically get the e-mails back into the deleted folders by restoring the database from backup and programmatically copying the folders back to the source mail file. The key is maintaining the UNID of the folder. Simply doing a copy/paste of the folders won’t work cuz this will create a new doc ID. Instead, create a simple agent in the restored database, run on selected documents, and use the “Copy to database” action, selecting the production mail file as the destination. Now open the restored db in the Notes client and switch ti the hidden “$FolderInfo” view. Locate the folders and subfolders you want to restore. Run your agent against these selected folders (these are actually documents representing the folder design notes) and it should copy the folders back while maintaining the original UNID. Make sure non of the folders were manually recreated with the same name or else this wont work. Once you have copied the folders back using the agent you may see that all of the documents have returned to the folders. This does not always work but it’s worked about 50% of the time for me.