PC Win: CONVERT.EXE Not Converting Folders with Mac Attachment

• Microsoft Mail for PC Networks, version 3.2a, 3.5

SYMPTOMS

The CONVERT.EXE utility dated 06/09/95, included with Microsoft Mail for PC Networks, does not reliably convert Macintosh user-created private postoffice folders containing large Macintosh attachments.

CAUSE

The Microsoft Mail for PC Networks, Macintosh workstation, under certain circumstances, will create erroneous Federal Information Processing Systems (FIPS) message attachment header fields in private folders. The fields will appear to be valid. However, they will not actually point to any valid attachment, and the data contained within the FIPS attachment field will be random. The attempt to read by CONVERT.EXE results in random data from within the folder being read as an attachment, or it attempts to read past the end of the folder itself.

The size of the message folder may have some effect on the problem, where messages with smaller attachments appear to convert correctly. The CONVERT.EXE utility is a shell that calls MSSFS.DLL from the Windows client to do the actual conversion. The following error will occur during a failed conversion:

   The folder conversion process was halted by an error while copying.
   No folders or messages were converted.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with CONVERT.EXE dated 06/09/95 and version 3.5 of MSSFS.DLL. This problem was corrected in version 3.5.4092 or later of MSSFS.DLL.

To obtain this updated file, please contact your Microsoft Technical Account Manager (TAM) or Product Support Services (PSS).

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q121717
   TITLE     : Err Msg: The Folder Conversion Process Was Halted...