usmt USMT migration of W7 Sticky Notes to W10

[Westy182]

Hi all,

I really hope someone can help as I've spent an unbelievable amount of time trying to get this working with no success.

I'm using USMT from the 1607 ADK and I'm trying to relocate a legacy Sticky Note file (.snt) from a windows 7 machine to the new Sticky Note modern app location on a Windows 10 machine.

W7 location = %AppData%\Roaming\Sticky Notes\StickyNotes.snt

W10 (1607) location = %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState

 

My USMT script is currently able to sucessfully collect up the snt file from a W7 machine and return it to the exact same place on a W10 machine but a manual step is then required to move this file to the new loaction.  A legacy snt file can be migrated to W10 by creating a new folder called "Legacy" and putting the "StickyNotes.snt" file in there and renaming it to "ThresholdNotes.snt".  So I require the USMT restore to create the "Legacy" folder, put the "StickyNotes.snt" file in it, then rename it to "ThresholdNotes.snt so that the new path looks like:

%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Legacy\ThresholdNotes.snt

This is explianed here: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/recover-backup-sticky-notes-data-file-windows-10/

 

I have found the following info online where someone has apparently got USMT sucessfully migrating snt files to the correct location but I can't get it working:  https://www.mail-archive.com/mdtosd@lists.myitforum.com/msg03057.html

 

Has anyone successfully managed to migrate StickyNote files over in this way with USMT?

Thanks,

Westy

[lumberjak2007]

https://www.mail-archive.com/mdtosd@lists.myitforum.com/msg03057.html < This site seems to have an XML that will do the trick.  I'd check them out.

[samohtrelhe]

Hi Westy
Please check out our new USMT Afterburner http://sccmdeploy.dk/?p=731

You can also obtain the XML's doing the trick anfd get an explanation to why it does not work for you :-)

With kind regards

SAM
EhlerTech.com

[Saeidans]

has anyone confirmed which solution works the best?

thanks

 

[Westy182]

I found that if you confirm that your USMT scripts have a migration rule for the .snt extension and you let it migrate from a W7 machine to the same location on a W10 machine, the W10 modern app will check the old W7 location and auto migrate any .snt files to the new area on first run.

[Saeidans]

Could you please share your xml file that migrates snt file from w7 to w10?

Thanks 

[Westy182]

<!-- This component migrates user files with known extension-->
 <component type="Documents" context="UserAndSystem">
  <displayName _locID="miguser.userdata">User Data</displayName>
  <role role="Data">
   <rules context="System">
    <include>
     <objectSet>

 <script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDrivePatterns ("* [*.snt]", "Fixed")</script>
     </objectSet>

[Saeidans]

Thank you for the quick reply.

just to be sure , did you add this to your migdocs.xml,  migapp.xml or simply created now xml like Stickynotes.xml and included in scanstate command ( ex. i:stickynotes.xml )

[Saeidans]

so Imported your quote into migdocs.xml , but it gave me an error.

is this how you are using this xml ?

 

 

thanks

 

[Saeidans]

what does <include> refer to and why it is not closes , I think this is what the issue is

[Westy182]

Apologies as I was rushing when I posted that snippet above.

Open the "MigUser.xml" which is a standard file with USMT. Search for "This component migrates user files with known extension" and then add the following line into this section:

<script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDrivePatterns ("* [*.snt]", "Fixed")</script>

This should then migrate any W7 .snt files from APPDATA/Roaming/MICROSOFT/Sticky notes to the same place on a W10 machine.  Then the first time you launch Windows 10 Sticky Notes it will check this location for any legacy .snt files for that user profile and migrate it into the W10 area AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_8wekyb3d8bbwe

Hope this helps,

Westy

[Saeidans]

Hello,

I don't use miguser.xml , I use migdocs.xml since it backsup files on c: drive as well.

I guess I can copy this section from miguser.xml into migdocs.xml with added line for snt files and try.

 

so I added the line to migdocs.xml as follow:

<!-- This component migrates data in user context -->
  <component type="Documents" context="User">
    <displayName>MigDocUser</displayName>
    <role role="Data">
      <rules>
        <include filter='MigXmlHelper.IgnoreIrrelevantLinks()'>
          <objectSet>
            <script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDocPatterns ("FALSE","TRUE","FALSE")</script>
          </objectSet>
        </include>
        <exclude filter='MigXmlHelper.IgnoreIrrelevantLinks()'>
          <objectSet>
            <script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDocPatterns ("FALSE","FALSE","FALSE")</script>
            <script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDrivePatterns ("* [*.snt]", "Fixed")</script>
          </objectSet>
        </exclude>

 

 

the stickynotes.snt seems to be being backed up since I can see it in usmt.mig , but when I run loadstate it is not being restored.

I manually copied it to to  APPDATA/Roaming/MICROSOFT/Sticky notes path to see if windows 10 will convert it as you said, but did not have any luck with that either.

what build of windows 10 do you use?

I am using 1709

thanks