Migrating from ZD1 to ZD2 on Windows

[uikilo]

Hi there. I was one of the unlucky ones who simply exported the local folders on ZD1, uninstall it, installed ZD2 only to find that I couldn't import the original backup.
After some tests I thought that maybe the .META files included in my backup were the reason of my problem, since there's an advanced option to specifically avoid copying them. So I

1. uncompressed the backup
2. removed all the .META files (one for each message)
3. used 7zip freeware to compress a .TAR file
4. once again used 7Zip over the previous file to get a GZip file
5. renamed the file's extension to .tgz
6. imported the backup

It Worked!


uikilo

UPDATE: this "workarround" still has two problems:
1. (Very important) you no longer have the original mail received date
2. If you back up a folder with many messages, it is divided in many folders with 500 messages each.
Hope someone ellaborated a better way to solve this...

[jmhe]

You must be running into this bug, which is fixed for the coming 2.0.1 release: https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=52712

It's not a surprise that it worked. But you lose tags and flags for those imported messages (tags and flags are part of meta data). Hopefully that won't be a huge issue in your case.

In general, users affected by this should wait for 2.0.1, not using this workaround.

We apologize for the inconvenience this bug might have caused you.