Mike
Mon Jun 06 23:21:25 CDT 2005
If it's that easy then it makes you wonder why people bother with
backward-compatible doc libs in SPS 2003.
But that's a question for the SPS newsgroup so let's call this thread a day.
Thanks for the info.
Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
"Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C5FAFB9D-855B-452C-9C38-068B611087D0@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the advice Mike. I actually figured it out eventually. I had to
> break the export down into smaller chunks. Some bright boy figured it was
> ok
> to pack 1700 folders and 7500 files into that library. We will be doing a
> little end-user education in the comining weeks I do believe.
>
> Anyway just so you know it can be done and you don't lose anything out of
> the 2001 library. Use SPout to export and SPin to import. If the XML
> doesn't
> parse it is probably because your library is too big.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> "Mike Walsh" wrote:
>
>> It isn't supposed to be possible to migrate from SPS 2001 to WSS at all,
>> so
>> I would if you really need this document library consider installing an
>> evaluation copy of SPS 2003 and migrating to that.
>>
>> That said I don't know if you could then copy what would be a
>> backward-compatible SPS 2003 doc lib to WSS ...
>>
>> Or to put it another way you have already done the impossible three
>> times,
>> why not be happy with that.
>>
>> P.S. I suspect that people in the SPS newsgroup would be more likely to
>> have
>> moved things from SPS 2001 than people here - it's at
>> microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver
>>
>> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
>> WSS FAQ at
http://wss.collutions.com
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>
>> "Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:81CBB718-0315-4591-86D2-31AFE0EDE4CB@microsoft.com...
>> > I'm trying to import a document library from SP 2001 into a WSS 2003
>> > site
>> > using SPIN. I have been able to get three of the 4 libraries I need to
>> > import
>> > moved but one is giving me fits.
>> >
>> > I get all the way through the process and get an error referencing the
>> > XML
>> > file being unable to parse, Please check the logs. The only indication
>> > of
>> > a
>> > failure in SPIN error log is as follows:
>> >
>> > EXCEPTION: Stack empty.
>> > at System.Collections.Stack.Pop()
>> > at
>> > Microsoft.SharePoint.Migration.Import.ImportFileParser.ParseImportXmlFile(String
>> > fileName)
>> > An error occured when parsing the xml. Please check the logs.
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>>
>>
>>