XitNotes Help

XitNotes lets you migrate your Lotus Notes 5 (or 4.5 or 4.6 with Notes 5 client) and above mail to Microsoft Outlook/Exchange.

HELP

You must have the following installed on your PC to run XitNotes:

• Outlook 97 or above
• and Lotus Notes 5 or above (client, server not mandatory)

You can not convert files if you do not have both programs loaded.

Don't have Lotus Notes?

You must have it. For evaluation you can download a fully functional non expiring trial copy of the Lotus Notes Client software from IBM at www.lotus.com in the Trials and Betas section. There is no software available that will convert Lotus Notes files (NSF Files) without Lotus Notes loaded.

Where to find help?

Please see the help menu in XitNotes for full information on how to use XitNotes including how to register mailboxes etc.

Installing

After downloading the XitNotes zip file (compressed file) it may need to be extracted to a temporary directory depending on your version of WinZip or operating system. You need Winzip to extract it. If you have XP it will understand the zip file and you may be able to copy the files to a temporary directory.

Once you have done that you need to run the setup.exe file. There is more than one setup file but only one setup.exe (has a little blue computer icon). It won't hurt to try and run the others as only the setup.exe will run.

Install XitNotes to your Lotus Notes executable directory. The Lotus Notes executable directory is the directory you will find Notes.exe, notes.ini, nnotes.dll and the many other files XitNotes requires. If you can't do that you need to add the Notes executable directory to the Windows Path (See environment variables in windows)
 

Testing XitNotes

There is an option called Subfolder under the heading Outlook Options which is set to to No by default. To test XitNotes to make sure you are happy with it you should write to a folder in Outlook that is easy to remove (by deleting) as the information exported in the test will not be useful for anything other than testing. You can either create a brand new PST file (with the "New/Attach" button) or you can write to a subfolder in your existing Outlook Mailbox. If you do that however make sure you have a backup for disaster recovery purposes.

XitNotes allows you to move your Lotus Notes 5.0 or 6.0 mail files to Outlook.