I've been stuck here at the office overnight this weekend babysitting the production hardware and network resources during our SAP implementation cut over. Since I was going to be stuck here twelve hours Friday Night / Saturday Morning with nothing to do except listen to iTunes, watch DVDs and surf the net I decided it would be a great time to finally upgrade my Notes Client to the 8.0.1.
Wow! It looks great! So I decided...hey! I'll just go ahead and upgrade my mail file from the slightly modified OpenNTF DWA 7.0 version I'd been running to the stock Notes/Domino version 8.0 mail.ntf. Our production server is still running at 6.5.3 but release notes say the v8 mail template is supported during migration... why not!
WARNING NOTE: It is really not advisable to make decisions about your mail file after two a.m. in the morning. If you do be prepared to live with the consequences..... i.e. rebuilding all of your folders and scouring the all documents view for all those important items that were so carefully arranged in multiple nested folders.
The built-in folders updated with no problem but all custom folders I'd created decided to "partially" upgrade when I did a replace design. Even worse opening the custom folders led to an error dialog....so I replaced the design again - multiple times. So I popped my mail file open in designer went into the folder section and unselected Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify - thinking - okay now the nested folders will update their design and stop making that annoying error noise when I open them... but nope they all just disappeared. I opened a local replica of the mail file in designer and copied the folders from there back into the primary copy - but then I had non-updated, erroring, empty folders... so I just gave up and recreated my folders anew. My folders look much better now that I've streamlined down from dozens of nested folders to seven - Newsletters, Pending, Projects, Reference, Reports, SAP and one for personal stuff.
The new version looks great. I've gotten a chance to goof around with widgets a bit. I found the Widgets articles in the new Lotus Domino Wiki that was mentioned in Alan Lepofsky's Blog . Looking forward to playing with them more.
If I hadn't already been bit by the mail file situation I might get more adventurous and try completing the Sametime install I've been working on... but no good comes from working on new projects at 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning without any sleep.
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