Migrating Notes® data to HCL Client Application Access (Windows™)

If you use Microsoft™ Windows™, use this procedure if you want to uninstall Notes® and migrate the Notes® data to HCL Client Application Access (HCAA).

About this task

On Microsoft™ Windows™, IBM Notes 8.5.x and HCAA can't coexist. If you use Notes 8.5.x, you must uninstall it before you install HCAA.
Note: HCAA is, by default, a multi-user install - it does not use the existing data directory. If a user wants to use an existing data directory, use the command for a single user in the table below after Notes uninstall.

Notes® 11.x or later can coexist with HCAA. However, if you no longer want to use Notes®, uninstall it and install HCAA as described in this topic to migrate your data.

Procedure

Use the steps in the following table that correspond to your type of Notes® installation: single-user or multi-user.
Table 1. Steps to uninstall Notes® and migrate the data to HCAA
You use multi-user Notes® on Windows™ You use single-user Notes® on Windows™
  1. Back up the Notes® data directory.
  2. Uninstall Notes®.
  3. Move the contents of the backed up data directory to C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\HCL\Notes\Data.
    Note: Step c is required only for Notes® 8.5.x.
  4. Install HCAA.
  1. Back up the Notes® data directory.
  2. Uninstall Notes®.
  3. Install HCAA by entering the following command from a Windows™ command prompt:

    setup -s -a /v"REUSE_INI=C:\<Notes_directory>\notes.ini"
        
    where <Notes_directory> is the directory in which Notes® was installed.

Results

Your Notes® data is migrated to HCAA.