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Recover & Repair NSF File Lotus Notes - Simple Manual Steps

In this article we will discuss about What is NSF file of Lotus Notes and common issues related to NSF file corruption. Finally, we will provide a manual step guide to recover NSF File of IBM Notes with Nfixup and Ncompact Command. Read the step by step guide mentioned below to repair NSF File:

What is Lotus Notes NSF ?

Lotus Notes has been one of the prominent choice of users due to its advanced and efficient email management. It offers the users with email features along with contact management, appointments, task, calendar etc. A large number of users rely on its service to carry out electronic communication. It maintains the mailbox in its proprietary format i.e, NSF files.

IBM Notes which works in association with Domino Server, is responsible for its maintenance. However, certain issues have been observed that hamper users task while using NSF application. As a result, many users migrate from Lotus Notes to more efficient and reliable client application.

Various Kind of Issues related to Lotus Notes

  • Crashing Issue: Domino server Recurrent crashes create several issues in Domino server
  • Faulty third party, add-ins: If any third party software, tools or add-in create some erroneous issues with Domino database, it can lead to data corruption.
  • Not accessed properly: This issue is generally found when administrator database is not accessible properly.
  • Hardware failure: Hardware failure issues causes delicate problems in NSF file. It will delete all files/folders present inside the NSF database. Hence, this can cause hardware failure.
  • Other reasons: Virus infection, unexpected errors, system shut down and virus,bugs attack can be one of the reasons that may cause corruption of NSF File

Lotus Notes recovery can fix NSF error:

Whenever NSF database is about to get corrupted you will receive any of the following error:-

  • File is not valid
  • File is corrupted
  • Error reading file
  • File is not a database
  • Corrupted file appears error
  • Database is not authorized
  • File truncated – file may have damaged error.
  • Try opening the file using other file extensions
  • An error occurred while opening file
  • Database corrupt- cannot allocate space

How to Repair Corrupted NSF database

Data Corruption is not a unique idea to this information driven world.Many people have gone over numerous data corruption issues throughout their life. Whenever any individual or firm experience any data corruption,it may cause unavailability of information and furthermore decreases the efficiency of that company. In this case, the NSF file corruption is a repulsive circumstance for them. Keeping in mind the end goal to lessen information damage, organizations are presently demonstrating their tendency for leaning towards different instruments which can acceptably weaken the rate of data corruption. Also,organizations are utilizing few information fixup apparatus to strengthen their development and efficiency for maintaining a strategic distance to avoid NSF File Corruption.

Manual Method to repair NSF file:

Further Manual method will help to recover corrupted NSF file so lets consider them:

Method 1:

With the help of Manual method user can repair corrupted NSF file

  • For initializing the fixup to repair NSF file first you need to select the server i.e, domino server if it does not run then attempt to run as domino administrator. If it still does not proceed on a server then you need to work on local server to run Fixup on database stored on the client side.
  • Now click on the Files tab.
  • In the third step you need to handpick the database on which you want to run Fixup
  • Move to the Tools panel and select Database -> Fixup.
  • Finally Click on OK.

Method 2:

These following steps will definitely recover corrupted NSF file of Lotus Notes helping you to repair NSF file.

  • Open command prompt and change the directory to lotus Notes file.
  • Now, enter the command nfixup.exe X:/.nsf then press enter key.This command is used for normal scanning of the NSF file and also helps in NSF repair when file is corrupted. If you still face problem then follow the below steps:
    • Write in the command prompt: ncompact.exe X:/.nsf then press enter key. This command will help you to compact Lotus Notes file.
    • If you still face the issues related to indexing then try this one: Type the following command in the command prompt: nupdall –r X:/.nsf then hit enter. This command will help you to rebuild the entire NSF index thereby helping to repair NSF File.

Conclusion

With the assistance of NSF file Repair utility users can keep the information secure by utilizing the manual strategy mentioned above in this article. The IBM NSF Repair method works with every variant of Lotus Notes framework and helps to recover corrupted NSF File effectively.