Import-SPWeb : The DateTime represented by the string is out of range?

Question

I am trying to import an exported sub site which exists in a separate site collection to another site collection that is hosted by different web application.

I'm running the import command like this:

Import-SPWeb http://sitename/destweb -Path ("D:\sourceweb.cmp") –NoLogFile

Then I get an error message:

Import-SPWeb : The DateTime represented by the string is out of rangeImport-SPWeb

In log file, I found it throws an exception at importing a particular document library:

[3/3/2016 10:21:22 AM] [Folder] [مجلد] Progress: Importing [3/3/2016 10:21:22 AM] [Folder] [مجلد] Verbose: Source URL: DocLib/Forms/مجلد [3/3/2016 10:21:22 AM] [Folder] [Docs] Progress: Importing [3/3/2016 10:21:22 AM] [Folder] [Docs] Verbose: Source URL: Docs [3/3/2016 10:21:22 AM] [Folder] [Docs] Error: The DateTime represented by the string is out of range. [3/3/2016 10:21:22 AM] [Folder] [Docs] Debug: at System.DateTime.Parse(String s, IFormatProvider provider) at System.Convert.ToDateTime(String value, IFormatProvider provider)
at System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo.GetDateTime(String name) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.MetaInfoProperty..ctor(SerializationInfoHelper infoHelper) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.DictionarySerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.FolderSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.CallSetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo objectData, ISerializationSurrogate surrogate, ISurrogateSelector selector) [3/3/2016 10:21:22 AM] FatalError: The DateTime represented by the string is out of range.

Note: I have the exported sub site as 3 files:

1- sourceweb.cmp

2- sourceweb1.cmp

3- sourceweb2.cmp

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

Answer 1

I also have same problem. After couple of hours of googling I have found this link http://codecaching.blogspot.ru/2012/11/importing-cmp-and-string-was-not.html

There was a problem with wrong year in date 29 May 60354 05:36:10 -0000 In my case in have not found any wrong dates in my Manifest.xml files but I have found some max dates like 31 Dec 9999 23:59:59.

I think the import process parses the date(31 Dec 9999 23:59:59) and adds timezone to it and goes out of bounds.

I have replaced all 31 Dec 9999 23:59:59 to 31 Dec 2099 23:59:59 and problem has disappeared.

Answer 2

I used import-spweb and export sp web with the flag -NoFileCompression

Then it creates everything in a folder , you can then find the manifest file and remove the random dates with (notepad) then import using the same flag and set the path to the folder , this resolved my issue a bit easier than trying to extract and convert multiple cmp / cab files.