Information sources for Import Wizard

Post Author: Geert
CA Forum: Migration to XI R2
Which input is used by the Import Wizard to migrate Personal - and Inbox documents from 6.5 to BOXIR2?
We have noticed that for some users, not all the Personal documents are migrated from 6.5 to BOXIR2. We have done a test on a Non-PRD environment. In PRD we have to migrate +80.000 documents for +10.000 users. I'm trying to find out why, to make an impact analysis.
Does the Import Wizard use: - only the 00000xyz.wid-files? - Profile.txt? - Index.dat? - Index? - Attribut.txt? - the Repository?
Does anyone recommend to copy the filestore on the server where the Import Wizard is installed? When I copy the filestore to a separate location, can the Impot Wizard make the link with the repository (if needed)?

Post Author: Geert
CA Forum: Migration to XI R2
- We have had a consultant to do an assessment of our environment. He's a former BO-employee and has the best experience I have ever seen. So, we are not operating on our own.
- We use BO since 1994 and BO is a standard reporting tool at our site. We have +5000 user who use BusinessObjects Full Client, who have created 50.000 documents on the Network. This is on average 10 docs per person. We have +5000 users who use Webi since 2005. They have created 40.000 docs in 3 years. So, this makes on average 8 documents per user over a period of 3 years. I think this is not too much... With a lot of users, you get a lot of documents
- If we do a cleanup (Delete) for the personal documents in Webi, the content of the 'index.dat' and the 'Attribut.txt' is not in sync with the actual files in the storage-directory. How can we solve this? Can a cleanup create a possible source of problems with the Import Wizard? To avoid this,we choose to migrate all the documents. Doing this, we ' follow' the rules of BO and can contact BOSupport in case of problems. We have allready introduced # cases for specific problems. The only thing we are missing is the 'general rules' the Import Wizard uses for the migration.
- We have 624 universes. The universes point for 75% to an ODS-layer which covers 80% of the operational systems. A lot of 'operational reporting' is done in BO. We use the SDK of Designer to create universes. This enables us to create a universe of +/-500 -1000 objects in, on average, 3 days.
-> I come back to my question: does anyone have any idea what the Import Wizard needs to migrate Personal Documents from Webi 6.5 to BOXI?

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Hi Tim,
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Import wizard has hanged for an hour; browser doesn't start

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When the original Import Wizard hanged during installation, there was a Firefox icon on the desktop but double-clicking the icon did not start Firefox because there was already a firefox.exe process (the hanging installer) so it would not even be possible to do the procedure of "import from another browser". I did not know that it was hanging on favorites. In fact I think it was not hanging on favorites, it was probably hanging on history and it was hanging on abusing my Outlook.pst file because Outlook couldn't even run. I think it didn't reach the stage of importing favorites because that would come later than the hang of importing history.
But at the time, I didn't know what it was hanging on, it was just hanging there for an hour with the Cancel button grayed out (together with two other grayed out buttons). I thought I was going to have to use Windows Task Manager to kill the installer and then uninstall whatever amount of Firefox had been installed. But I tried the [X] in the upper right corner and it did work more or less, even though the Cancel button didn't.
The original problem is not solved.
Also the abuse of Outlook.pst is not solved. Why would Firefox (not Thunderbird) prevent Outlook from accessing Outlook.pst?
I do know that everyone's a volunteer and I can't complain the way I complain about Microsoft, but I can still say accurately that the problem is not solved. If you don't want to solve it then mark it WONTFIX, but don't pretend that you solved it.

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Only showing 50 rows for the preview is normal behaviour. Based on what you've described, it sounds like Power Pivot is running out of memory when you are loading this .txt file. Are you running the 32 bit or 64 bit version of Excel. Also, if you are running
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