Moving nsf files

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Hello

Hard Disk on D now is full, and now I want to move files from D to E. How can I do that?

Best Regards to all,

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Subject: moving nsf files

I suppose you lnow how to move the files from the D-disc to the E-disc.

I also assume that you are only moving your data-directory.

In your notes.ini you will see a reference to the data directory. You have to change that too. Look for any other occurences of the string “D:” and replace them all.

You also have to change your registry, since there is an entry to point to your data directory. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\Notes has a key called Path, change this too.

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Subject: moving nsf files

Thanks

But, I want to move some of nsf files not all of them. How to do that?

Best Regards

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Subject: RE: moving nsf files

In principle that would not be a problem, provided that no other application (=db) is referring to the older location.

A drawback is, that when you want to open a moved application you will not find it via the open-db dialog via the directory structure. In this case you have to use the browse-button at the bottom of this dialog.

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Subject: moving nsf files

Shut the server downfrom the OS

  • MOVE yr NSF file to the new location

  • Create a text file in the original location and name it the same as the nsf file including the extension

  • in this false NSF file enter the [drive:][\path]filename.nsf

  • restart the server

if the old file was names.nsf

and the new copy is now moved to e:\lotus\data\names.nsf

the text file name in the original notes folder will be: names.nsf

it will contain one line - e:\lotus\data\names.nsf

Hope that helps.

Done it a number of times.