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PRB: Personal Folders Do Not Support the COPY_SUBFOLDERS Flag

Article ID: 181485

Article Last Modified on 8/18/2005

Microsoft Messaging Application Programming Interface
Microsoft Exchange Development Kit 5.5
Microsoft Exchange Client 5.0
Microsoft Windows Messaging

This article was previously published under Q181485

SYMPTOMS

When calling IMAPIFolder::CopyFolder() on a folder in a Personal Folders message store, the COPY_SUBFOLDERS flag is not honored. The call to CopyFolder copies only the immediate subfolders.

CAUSE

The Personal Folders Service provider does not support the COPY_SUBFOLDERS flag.

RESOLUTION

The recommended workaround is to create a recursive function that traverses the folders and copies messages and subfolders on the destination as it goes.

Additional query words: CopyFolder PST Personal Folders COPY_SUBFOLDERS

Keywords: kbmsg kbprb KB181485