Issue during Import of settings.xml from previous version

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Hi All,

I am evaluating eM Client and have encountered many issues/niggles but due to the kind assistance of Gary Curtin I am persevering!

As part of this I have my first install on v7.0.27943.0 as that PC wont run v7.1 without freezing on opening (unknown why as yet). But, it appears, several of the issues I am having with it seem to relate to things that are either fixed in later releases or I cannot find so I guess Gary is referring to newer features! I have now installed the latest release v7.1.32561.0 on another PC successfully to test and am therefore trying to copy the settings from one machine to another.

Gary explained that I can export the settings as an XML file which I have done from the v7.0 PC successfully. However, on import on the v7.1 PC I get the error “The format of XML file is newer than the version of application…”

The XML export from v7.0 looks to be formatted correctly and starts with the lines:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


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To look for differences, I did an export from the v7.1 to see and it looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


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So the newer app version has a later format version but amending the older export to version 3 did not alter the error.

Anyone have an idea what the issue is? Many thanks in advance,

Nick

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Because some changes were made to the database structure in 7.1, the xml file is not compatible across the versions.

If you want a complete duplicate of the 7.0 client, close both eM Clients and copy the whole C:\Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\eM Client\ folder across. When you restart the 7.1 client, you will be prompted to update the database to the new format.

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Thanks Gary, that worked a treat… also saved a lot of syncing emails over the internet too! There were no obvious signs of updating the db though, it literally just started up identical to the other one.

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Glad it is working out for you. :slight_smile: