Have you recently upgraded the client to V3?
I think we got that message when we did.
It's harmless (although you can't back off to the v2 client afterwards) and
takes seconds, at most.
But we don't have much data archived for each client - if you have lots of
archive data, I assume it would take more.
We just click OK and move on....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brenda Collins [SMTP:brenda.collins.h64a AT STATEFARM DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 11:43 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Archive Conversion
>
> When trying to archive files on a netware client server, I get the
> following message:
>
> ANS5148W - The server needs to do a one-time conversion of your archive
> data before you
> can continue. This operation may take a long time and can not be canceled
> once it has started.
>
> Does anyone know what this is about?  Apparently, it is not going to let
> me
>  archive anything until
> I allow it to run.
>
> Thanks for any input you can provide.