ePreserver Product News

Build 410 Released

2010-08-25

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 410:

Fixed: Folder button does not work for Mac destination.
Fixed: Groups created in Outlook are not working properly.
Fixed: Gmail returns "contains excess whitespace" error when creating a folder.
Fixed: Crash converting to IMAP if connection closes unexpectedly.
Improved: Added duplicate detection when converting messages to text and html (requires NTFS file system.)
Removed support for Windows 2000.
For Windows XP, Service Pack 3 is now required
Improved: Text files are now written utf-8 to reliably support multiple languages.

Build 408 Released

2010-03-31

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 408:

Fixed: It's not possible to convert just Favorite Places.
Fixed: Extended MAPI DLL loader does not understand Vista UAC.
Fixed: IN_PAGE_ERROR while reading a PFC file crashes the application.
Fixed: Error 417 uploading contacts to Gmail or Google Apps.
Fixed: The "Keep Separate" checkbox in Settings does not work reliably.
Fixed: Certain errors can cause the app to disappear with no error message.
New: Added support for Google Contacts v3.
New: Added support for Outlook 2010 Beta

Build 406 Released

2009-11-17

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 406:

Fixed: Long folder names in Asian character sets are truncated in Gmail.
New: Significantly improved performance of repeated conversion to Gmail by implementing duplicate detection.
Fixed: (Regression in 404) Converting to the Mac crashes.
Fixed: ePreserver crashes during the initial wizard.
New: The columns in the Viewer are now sortable.
Improved: The Viewer is now dramatically faster handling large numbers of messages.

Build 404 Released

2009-10-16

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 404:

New: Added support for converting to separate folders under Settings.
New: Added support for AOL Desktop.
Fixed: Application disappears converting corrupted PFC file.
New: Added AOL Web Email as a specific source.
Fixed: ePreserver is routinely "forgetting" customer registration info.

Build 400 Released

2009-06-16

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 400:

Fixed: TLS/SSL failure for imap.aol.com: Unexpected TCP input disconnect
Fixed: Some AOL message headers are not converted
Fixed: All products now run with DEP (Data Execution Protection) enabled on Windows Vista.
Fixed: vCard dates are emitted in the wrong format.
Fixed: Categories are not converted to groups when converting to Gmail.
New: Added support for duplicate contacts in Gmail.

Build 398 Released

2008-11-26

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 398:

Fixed: The AOL "Primary E-mail" setting in AOL 9 is ignored.
Fixed: When using ePreserver to convert to Gmail, ePreserver will sometimes convert a few emails, then request login credentials, over and over again.
Fixed: Folder names with non-US characters would be converted correctly, but status messages would be garbled.
Fixed: The AOL nickname field is not being converted.
Fixed: When converting AOL messages, bcc recipients enclosed in parentheses are ignored.
Fixed: When converting AOL distribution lists, some screen names with spaces are ignored.
Fixed: Crash if Outlook 97 is installed.
Fixed: Converting messages to Gmail crashes on Windows 2000.
Fixed: Crash if dependent DLL is not found.
Fixed: App crashes if AOL PFC/ABY file has zero length.
Fixed: Some forwarded AOL messages are missing the body.
Improved: Messages converted to the Sent Items folder in Gmail no longer show as "To: me".
New: Added support for reading LDIF files from AOL Communicator.
New: www.aol.com users now have a workaround for converting their address book if AOL 9 isn't installed.
Fixed: Converting contacts to Gmail may lose contacts. Caused by a bug in Gmail.
Fixed: Apple Address Book cannot import some vCards

Build 394 Released

2008-09-10

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 394:

Fixed: Email messages converted to Gmail weren't being placed into the default Sent Items folder.
New: Address books are now converted directly to Gmail. Distribution lists and postal addresses are now converted correctly. (You must have the .Net 2.0 Framework installed or you'll get a CSV file.)
Fixed: When converting the AOL address book, sometimes the first name disappears.
New: Added support for converting AOL filing cabinets to Mac Mail under OS X.

Build 392 Released

2008-06-19

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 392:

Fixed: Gmail doesn't always show as a destination.
Fixed: Converting just favorites appears to hang.
Fixed: Attachments for Sent Items are not reattached.
Fixed: German folder names from AOL may be corrupted when converted.
Fixed: ePreserver just disappears during conversion.
New: (PLUS) New message folders in Outlook are now created with Unicode names, so (for example) Japanese folder names can be created on English systems. Outlook 2003 and later only.

Build 390 Released

2008-04-19

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 390:

Fixed: Enabled encryption on IMAP connections under Windows Vista.
Fixed: Some messages headers were not converted in one customer's PFC file.
Fixed: Message dates in older PFC files are now converted more reliably.
New: Added support for converting messages and address books to Gmail.
Fixed: (PLUS) Duplicate detection of messages is not working properly when converting to Outlook.
Fixed: Auto-Added contacts are not being converted.
New: Added support for converting messages to HTML format.

Build 388 Released

2008-02-04

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 388:

Fixed: Hang converting certain damaged PFC files.
Fixed: Conversion terminates prematurely if there are any messages in the Favorite Places folder.
Fixed: Screen name selection is does not work.

Build 386 Released

2008-01-02

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 386:

Fixed: Crash under Vista if you try to convert just favorites.
Fixed: (PLUS) Crash when converting an invalid message to Outlook Express.
Fixed: Cannot convert Messages Saved on AOL if there's no PFC file.
Fixed: When converting Messages Saved on AOL, messages in folders that appear alphabetically after "Spam" can go into the wrong folder.

Build 384 Released

2007-12-13

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 384:

Fixed: Application hangs on registration page on some systems.
Fixed: Rare crash converting messages from AOL.
Fixed: ePreserver crashes after "Application requires Administrator access" under Vista.

Build 382 Released

2007-11-29

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 382:

Fixed: (PLUS) Message conversion crashes on certain ill-formed messages.
Fixed: Converting to Outlook 2000 IMO crashes.
Fixed: Trying to convert only favorites crashes in Build 380.
Fixed: Receive "Not a valid PFC file" when opening small ABY files

Build 380 Released

2007-11-08

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 380:

Improved: Detection of duplicate contacts.
Fixed: File named ____++++.+++ causes ePreserver to crash.
Fixed: Attachments sometimes are not reattached.
Fixed: Attachments are not reattached if the user renamed them when downloaded.
Fixed: "Interface not supported" error when opening AOL filing cabinet.

Build 378 Released

2006-06-21

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 378:

Improved: The French translation has been brought up to date. This will appear automatically on systems where the default language is French.
Fixed: Converting message can fail with the error "MapiViewOfFile Failed."
Fixed: Favorites are sometimes converted into the root Favorites directory.
Fixed: ePreserver sometimes creates duplicate favorites.
Fixed: Can't create groups in Windows Contacts in Vista.
Fixed: Contacts written to Windows Contacts have duplicate email addresses.
Fixed: ePreserver hangs converting some PFC files with minor corruption.

Build 376 Released

2007-04-26

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 376:

Fixed: Viewer shows dates in GMT instead of local time.
Fixed: Folder structure of favorites is not converted correctly.
Test fix: The wrong PFC file is sometimes chosen when AOL has been installed multiple times.
Fixed: Newlines are sometimes missing from pre-AOL 7 messages converted from AOL.
Fixed: Font attributes are sometimes not converted from pre-AOL 7 messages.
Fixed: Messages converted from CompuServe can show screen names as coming from aol.com instead of cs.com.
Fixed: Help button doesn't work.
Fixed: Viewer shows dates in GMT instead of local time.
Fixed: Folders converted to Outlook with more than 15,000 messages convert very slowly.

Build 374 Released

2007-03-01

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 374:

New: Added support for Windows Vista.
New: Added support for AOL 9.0 VR (Vista Ready)
New: Added support for Windows Contacts in Windows Vista.
Fixed: You receive a conversion error at Location 88 if you convert a PFC file with messages in the root folder.
Fixed: ePreserver crashes for no obvious reason when converting email saved on AOL.

Build 372 Released

2006-11-19

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 372:

Fixed: Trying to convert messages saved on AOL with ePreserver yields Authentication Cancelled error.
Fixed: Converting email kept on AOL crashes in Win98.

Build 370 Released

2006-10-23

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 370:

Fixed: Installer won't upgrade an existing installation.

Build 368 Released

2006-10-11

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 368:

New: Added "ePreserver Recovery Edition" to give consumers a version of the Forensic Edition.
Fixed: ePreserver viewer didn't work under Win9x
Fixed: Nested favorites folders could end up in the wrong parent folder.

Build 366 Released

2006-09-14

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 366:

New: Attachments from local filing cabinets (PFC files) are reattached during conversion.
Improved: PFC files larger than 1GB are now supported.
New: Support for converting AOL filing cabinets that contain more than one screen name.
Fixed: Rare problem that caused ePreserver to hang when converting messages.
Fixed: Some messages from AOL are incorrectly converted with today's date.
Fixed: Some messages converted from AOL are blank.
New: Created an evaluation version of ePreserver. The evaluation version is the same distribution file as the commercial version.
New: Switched to an MSI installer in preparation for Windows Vista.
New: ePreserver now requires activation, during which the software communicates with the Connected Software licensing server. The License Agreement has been updated to reflect this change.

Build 362 Released

2006-03-23

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 362:

Fixed: Some AOL messages with accented and Japanese characters would not convert properly.
Fixed: AOL messages that had been forwarded or replied to could have stale header information (from/to/cc/subject) after conversion.

Build 360 Released

2006-02-28

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 360:

Fixed: Messages may not be put into Inbox or Sent Items when converting to Outlook.
Fixed: Distribution lists are sometimes migrated with deleted members.
New: Created ePreserver Forensic Edition for reading deleted messages and contacts from AOL filing cabinets. This is a separate product and not an upgrade.

Build 358 Released

2006-01-12

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 358:

Fixed: Hang caused by incorrectly processing picture data in HTML messages.
Fixed: Pictures in certain HTML messages do not convert.
Fixed: Some messages from older versions of AOL convert with the wrong time of day.
Fixed: Regression in Build 357 causes ePreserver to crash on Windows NT and Windows 2000.
Improved: Detection of duplicate messages has been completely rewritten to be more accurate and predictable.

Build 357 Released

2005-12-13

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 357:

Fixed: Most causes of the error "some screen names are in use."
Fixed: Rare case of ePreserver hanging when reading messages.
Fixed: Windows keeps asking whether to run the software, even after installation.
New: Support for reading Japanese filing cabinets.

Build 351 Released

2005-07-07

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 351:

Fixed rare crash reading AOL address books.
ePreserver now uses the currently identity when converting messages to Outlook Express. This makes messages work the same as the address book.

Build 349 Released

2005-03-01

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 349:

Fixed crash with AOL distribution lists surrounded by parentheses.
Fixed (hopefully once and for all) problems handling AOL screen names with spaces.
Fixed some minor issues with domain names when converting CompuServe or Wal-Mart Connect.
Fixed choosing a PFC file, which didn't work in Build 347.

Build 347 Released

2005-02-09

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 347:

Fixed bug where screen names with spaces would produce invalid email addresses.
Added support for CompuServe and Wal-Mart Connect.
Fixed conversion of German and certain other European characters into Outlook.
Made conversion of message dates more reliable for Sent Items folder and messages from old PFC files.

Build 343 Released

2004-12-06

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 343:

Significantly improved support for messages with letters from outside the US.
Added initial support for AOL .art images and attachments. Requires that .ART support be installed with Internet Explorer to work properly.
Fixed problem where part of the body of forwarded messages could be ignored.
Fixed problem with messages that would unexpectedly show up including dozens of > and   strings.
Fixed crash seen in certain messages with HTML IMG attribute.

Build 341 Released

2004-11-10

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 341:

Fixed crash in Build 339 writing Outlook 97.
Fixed hang reading certain AOL address books.

Build 339 Released

2004-10-20

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 339:

Fixed problem where numbers would sometimes show up instead of contact names for some contacts.
Fixed problem where auto-added contacts shouldn't have been ignored if they appear in a distribution list.
Fixed bug where some contacts may not transfer.
Fixed error accessing Microsoft Outlook that showed up as, "Your Outlook message store could not be opened."
Fixed bug where no screen name would show up if multiple versions of AOL 9 had been installed.
Fixed problems converting AOL 5 messages that were plain text. The text was being interpreted as HTML and newlines were being lost.

Build 337 Released

2004-08-30

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 337:

Fixed bug reading AOL address books where some contacts were ignored that shouldn't have been.
Fixed hang reading certain corrupt AOL email files.

Build 336 Released

2004-08-17

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 336:

Added support for remembering which messages were already imported to prevent duplicates if ePreserver is run more than once.
Changed default behavior to ignore duplicate contacts.
Added Settings dialog to control duplicate handling and auto-added contacts handling.
Rewrote support for writing messages to Outlook Express to make more robust and add support for nested folders.
Fixed handling of non-breaking spaces in messages.
Attempted a fix for "File not found" error.

Build 334 Released

2004-08-02

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 334:

Fixed crash parsing RFC822 addresses with no closing angle bracket.
Fixed more problems converting AOL PFC email files.
Fixed crash in the case where no filename is defined for an embedded image in an email message.
Fixed "no messages found" bug.

Build 331 Released

2004-07-18

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 331:

Fixed problem where duplicates could be created when copying address book.
Fixed crash encountered when converting nested email folders from email stored on the local PC.
Fixed crash caused by converting email that contains nothing but a picture.
Reworked handling of embedded images to improve success rate.
Fixed hang when the "Starting Outlook Express" message is displayed.
Fixed crash converting certain messages over 100KB.
Fixed crash when converting address books where an email address had "mailto:" prepended.
Fixed hang on uninstall if Norton Antivirus is also installed.

Build 329 Released

2004-06-22

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 329:

Product renamed from SaveMyFavorites to ePreserver
Added support for all European and North American languages.
Added support for converting email, including embedded images.
Added support for selecting a screen name.
Added support for offline operation so you can run ePreserver even if you no longer subscribe to AOL.

Build 323 Released

2004-03-08

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 323:

Added install/uninstall options to simplify usage for users who click Open when downloading.
Fixed problem where PFC files couldn't be manually selected.
Changed conversion strategy to increase performance, reliability, and support for more international versions of AOL.

Build 320 Released

2003-10-28

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 320:

Improved automated control of AOL interface.
Improved behavior on non-English computers.

Build 316 Released

2003-05-29

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 316:

Added support for AOL 9.

Build 315 Released

2003-09-28

Below is the history of new features and bug fixes in ePreserver Build 315:

First public release.