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Garnjost, Kurt - 25 Feb 2008 16:15 GMT

I have a program using Redemption RDO to access .msg files. Generally, it
works quite well, but for a few files I get an error:

-2147352567 File [file name/path] does not exist., (failed on
"GetMessageFromMsgFile")

The trouble is that the file does exist and I can open it in Outlook just
fine. I can see nothing in OutlookSpy that is strange. The only odd thing
I have noted is that the modified date for the not visible in Windows
Explorer for the files and shows as "December 30, 1899 00:00:00" in the
properties dialog.

Does anyone have any idea what is wrong with these .msg files? Is it a
Redemption problem (I doubt it, but I don't really know)? Any suggestions
on how to get past this would also be appreciated. I have set up error
handling that records the problem and moves on, but would prefer to be able
to process the files.

Kurt Garnjost

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Dmitry Streblechenko - 26 Feb 2008 22:58 GMT

How was the MSG file created?

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

>I have a program using Redemption RDO to access .msg files. Generally, it
> works quite well, but for a few files I get an error:
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> Kurt Garnjost

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Garnjost, Kurt - 26 Feb 2008 23:52 GMT

It was created with a product called Discovery Attender, which creates a
database of e-mail information from PST files and then will create MSG files
out of the PSTs on request. (Some selection can be done, if desired before
the MSG creation.) (I know I could generate all this myself with
Redemption, but generally Discovery Attender works well and saves me a lot
of coding.)

There are about 50 files like this out of some 170,000 MSG files all created
from PSTs the same way. Only the 50 have this problem.

I have written some code that catches these problem files and skips them
with a list generated, but I trying to understand why Redemption cannot open
them.

Kurt Garnjost

On 2/26/2008 17:58, in article OlnywrMeIHA.5620@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,

> How was the MSG file created?
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>> Kurt Garnjost

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Dmitry Streblechenko - 27 Feb 2008 22:43 GMT

Redemption checks whether the file exists by retrieving the last write time
on the file (this way it does not have to be opened). The function defaults
to 0 (which is December 30, 1899 00:00:00) if the file does not exist...
Send me an e-mail so I can send you a version with a fix.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

> It was created with a product called Discovery Attender, which creates a
> database of e-mail information from PST files and then will create MSG
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>>> Kurt Garnjost

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