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Error: IMAP: APPEND command error: BAD ['Could not parse command']

Submitted by Anonymous on 14. February 2010 - 11:52.

I wanted to restore the backup to another Gmail account, but receiving following messages instead:
GMail Backup revision 691 (2009-02-20)
Restoring the content of account mynewuser@googlemail.com from C:\Users\me\Desktop\2010-02-13
Error: IMAP: APPEND command error: BAD ['Could not parse command']

What does this mean?
If this feature doesn't work a backup seemed to be nearly useless.

I run Google backup on windows vista.

Any workarounds or suggestions out there? Please give me some ideas under answer@email.de

thanks

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#1Submitted by Anonymous on 3. March 2010 - 22:59.

Same Problem

Did you get a response to this question
#2Submitted by Anonymous on 16. March 2010 - 1:25.

Same

Same problem here, at 84%. WTF?
#3Submitted by Anonymous on 8. April 2010 - 20:02.

Big Files?

I think it only happens with big files.
I've restored all the e-mails excluding de files with more than 10mb.
#4Submitted by Anonymous on 12. May 2010 - 0:05.

Same

I got the same error several times, and then I just changed the dates to skip e-mail from the day with the error and keep going and it finally finished restoring.

It's not the big files because mine got stuck on a very small file, but the later e-mails with very large attachments went through fine.
#5Submitted by Anonymous on 10. November 2010 - 7:39.

Odd

Both times I've tried it has stopped at 40.9%. Do you suggest I try restoring the emails in groups or skipping the part where it stops?
#6Submitted by Anonymous on 13. January 2011 - 2:04.

Solution

Delete or move to other folder first file from the group you want to restore.First .eml file i mean not .txt or folder.I think source of the problem comes from multiple restoring attempt(in my case anyway),and when restoring failed the last file which was not restored is somehow broken.And when restoring big number of files and you cant finish in one attempt just delete files you alredy restored and iniciate new restore.Program is restoring files in the order they are in folder(originally by date of creation so you can easly check which files you already have on e-mail.