Category: Lotus Notes
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Learning to love Notes’ .NTF files
Lotus Notes is very wary of its database files, also known as .NSF-files, becoming corrupted. So much so, in fact that IBM has created a whole class of files designed to recreate these files. This class of files is called .NTF files. NSF is an abbreviation of Network Storage Facility, and each, or at any…
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Doing too much with a single piece of software
I have written about Lotus notes before. I have written about solutions to problems, and to what I like and/or dislike about it. My main problem with Lotus Notes is a combination of two; on the one side, it has major usability issues, though these are adressed, to some degree, in version 8. My main…
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Lotus Notes: Resolving “Toolbar configuration not found” errors
A user called in with an error message I see from time to time in Lotus Notes. The error message in question is the not very informative “Toolbar configuration not found”. Though not overly informative, this error message is simple enough to resolve. This error message is sometimes, though not always, followed by a second…
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Lotus Notes 8 – a Quick overview
For one reason or another, I have a stated preference for using webmail over some sort of locally installed client. There are many reasons, but the main one is that I want to be able to read mail wherever, whenever. Now, at work, this is not really an option. We do have webmail access, but…
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Why not to install Lotus Notes on a network share
As previously noted, my email client at work is Lotus Notes. For some reason, the Data folder is installed to each users’ home share on the network, and that home share is synchronised to the local drive using Offline Folders. Now, I cannot get over how bad a solution this is, for a few reasons:…
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Resolving “An error occurred while opening a window” errors in Lotus Notes
Many users of Lotus Notes, myself included, at times get the error message “An Error Occurred While Opening a Window“. To resolve this, all processes that belongs to Lotus Notes have to be terminated. From IBM, there’s a file available called “Killnotes.exe”, which does just that. The file can be obtained from Lotus.com. Simply unzip…
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Why Webmail rocks my world
I’ve been using email since 1998, and from the get-go I’ve been using various webmail-clients, in addition to locally installed clients such as Outlook Express (urgh), Outlook (Yum-yum), Lotus Notes (Oh-so-bloated) and Thunderbird (Weighed, measured and found wanting). My first email address was a hotmail one, and although that specific incarnation of my online presence…
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Lotus Notes: Resolving “File Already Exists” issues
Working in a Lotus Notes environment, I have seen quite a few of the issues concerned with Lotus Notes. Running Lotus Notes with the data-folder located on a network share, combined with sync of Offline folders has a nasty tendency of creating corrupt files. A typical error is “File Already Exists”. Experience has pretty reliably…