DTS Migration wizard - solved

i am trying to use the DTS migration wizard in sql server 2005 to migrate some of the DTS packages that i have on sql server 2000.

After entering the source and destination server i get the following error:

Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index (mscorlib)

Does anyone know the reson behind this?

Thanks for any help.

I've just installed Server 2005 and am getting the same message. The earlier threads refer to special characters and leading or trailing spaces. I've tried the wizard on a few packages that have nothing but letters in the name, and I get the above message. I tried repairing .NET 2.0 as well (didn't work).

What else should I/we try?

Thanks,

K

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Found a forum where a user clarified that NONE of the DTS packages can have a leading/trailing space. Well, one out of a hundred or so packages had a space; after I fixed that one, the wizard worked.

Find the spaces (thanks to Joseph Sack's SQL Server blog):

SELECT DISTINCT name
FROM msdb.dbo.sysdtspackages
WHERE name LIKE '% '

and I'd suggest: or name LIKE ' %'

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Thanks a lot.

I had one package that had a space. After i deleted the space i was able to get a little further. but when i hit finish, All the packages display "Stopped" and none gets transferred.

Thanks