Lotus Notes Bookmark.ntf Error
after upgrade from earlier version Technote (FAQ) Question The following error appears when users attempt to launch Notes clients that were upgraded from and earlier version (e.g., from 5.x to 6.x): "The Notes 6 client requires an up-to-date bookmark template, BOOKMARK.NTF. Please obtain a copy and restart Notes. Cause The read-only attribute is enabled for the bookmark template (BOOKMARK.NTF) on the users' workstations. Answer This issue has been reported to Quality Engineering as SPR# JMIL635Q3A. There are currently no plans to address this issue. Workarounds include: Remove the read-only attribute from the BOOKMARK.NTF. Deleting the existing BOOKMARK.NTF and either copying that file from another Notes client of the same/higher release that launches successfully. Rreinstall Notes on the affected workstations. Supporting Information: In another case, the problem was actually with the user's BOOKMARK.NSF and not the BOOKMARK.NTF as indicated by the error message. Document information More support for: IBM Notes Software version: 7.0, 8.0 Operating system(s): Windows, iOS Reference #: 1199056 Modified date: 28 February 2005 Site availability Site assistance Contact and feedback Need support? Submit feedback to IBM Support 1-800-IBM-7378 (USA) Directory of worldwide contacts Contact Privacy Terms of use Accessibility
Unresolved Topics Author Cloud Alex Zimarev Barry Shapiro Bob McGrath Bradley Ineichen Brandon M Kutsch Carl Tyler Chad Scott Dave Kern Doug Finner Howard D Greenberg Irina Khasin Jay Marme Jean-Pierre Bloch Jenifer P. Kidder Jochen Sack John Paganetti Jon S Albright Mark Gottschalk Mark Taylor Michael Blumentritt Mike Woolsey Okio OL Luna Rob Berendt Rodrigo San Vicente Wongo Wongo New Topic Share ▼ Subscribe ▼ Reply Shawn J KiserAug 29, 2013 5:57 PM1 Posts WIndows 7 and Notes 9, Shared notes.iniCategory: Notes ClientPlatform: WindowsRelease: 9.0Role: End UserTags: Shared,Notes.ini,roamingReplies: 1 Going through a roll-out of clean new desktops with a Windows 7 base image, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21199056 that includes Notes 9 with no special install parameters. After a user signs in and goes through Notes 9 setup, This is a roaming user, so roaming databases that are still 8.5 are being pulled down from the mail server during notes setup, they are getting the error "Notes client requires an up to date bookmark.ntf, please obtain a copy and restart notes" This is caused by a notes.ini setting templatesetup=90000 which https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ndseforum.nsf/xpTopicThread.xsp?documentId=7D4CF0EF7C12B3FF85257BD600789DC5 looks only for Notes 9 template based nsf files, and uses them. This fix is to change notes.ini setting to templatesetup=70000 which forces Notes to look for older based templates and upgrade them. Ideally we should be able to use a Shared notes.ini setting and just change it before a user does the first setup and this would resolve the issue. I am unable to locate a shared notes.ini file on Windows 7, and according to IBM PMR 41891 227 000 that I opened for this issue, IBM says there is no Shared notes.ini so this cannot be set ahead of time to resolve this problem. My question is does anyone have any other suggestions about resolving the issue of Notes 8.5 template based roaming profiles using a first sign into to a fresh windows 7 workstation with Notes 9 pre-installed? Thanks for your time Shawn Simon ButcherAug 30, 2013 4:20 PM6 PostsForwarded to Development New Topic Share ▼ Subscribe ▼ Reply Go elsewhereResourcesLotus SuportAbout All forums All wikis IBM developerWorks IBM SocialBiz UX Blog Forum use and etiquette Native Notes Access Web site feedback Forgot your password? Forgot your user name? Create new registration Update registration / password Lotus Support Browse technotes by product category Product documentation Upgrade Central About IBM Privacy
already exists" Home » » Repair corrupt bookmark.nsf to resolve Note error: "File already exists" Bookmark.nsf is one of the most important configuration files used by Lotus Notes. The Bookmark.nsf file corruption may lead the Notes user to troublesome situations. It http://recover-email.blogspot.com/2013/03/repair-corrupt-bookmarknsf-to-resolve.html may lead to system slow down as well as the user may face several error http://www.lavatech.com/Support.nsf/ID/67GKWH messages. The Notes error message "File already exists" is the one of the most common error message faced by Notes users. Cause:Generally it may be prompted if the bookmark.nsf file is corrupt. This message may be prompted when user launches the Lotus Notes application and the bookmark.nsf file is corrupt. The corrupt bookmark file cannot be accessed by user so, lotus notes Lotus Notes itself try to create new bookmark.nsf file but as it already exist, and it leads the error message "File already exists to be prompted on the screen. Resolution:Consider the case for non-roaming user who only uses the tiled workspace. If the bookmark.nsf file is deleted in this case then the Notes can itself create a new bookmark.nsf with the help of bookmark.ntf.So, if you are Non-roaming Users and facing any bookmark.nsf file corruption related lotus notes bookmark.ntf issues you can easily resolve it by rebuilding the bookmark.nsf file.The steps to rebuild corrupt bookmark.nsf are: Close Lotus Notes application. Open Windows Explorer. Find bookmark.nsf. Rename the bookmark.nsf to bookmark.old. Re-start Lotus Notes. Now you are done. The bookmark.nsf file is recreated. You can now change the settings for 'home page' to your desired values The other cause for the Notes error "File already exists" may be the corruption of local perweb.nsf file If the local perweb.nsf file is corrupt then, you may face the above error message while trying to open a received HTML newsletter. Resolution:You need to delete the corrupt perweb.nsf file. Lotus Notes client will recreate the perweb.nsf file the same way it does for bookmark.nsf file. Follow the given steps to recreate perweb.nsf file: Run Lotus Notes Set the browser to Notes or Open Notes with Internet Explorer. Exit Lotus Notes. Search perweb.nsf file in Lotus Notes\Data directory. Rename perweb.nsf file Restart Notes application. Open a web/ HTML document page. Now, Notes will automatically recreate the perweb.nsf file. So, if you are facing the Notes error "File already exists". First thing you need to know is whether the error is caused by bookmark.nsf corruption or perweb.nsf corruption. After that, you can take the required steps to resolve the error. If you are Roaming user, you need to perform some a
up to date bookmark template, BOOKMARK.NTF. Please obtain a copy and restart notes".Please help.- Jevy (12/08/2004)On December 13, 2004 05:00 PM, Steve Cave wrote:We've upgraded a couple thousand and got quite a few of these... Here's what we did:Delete the bookmark.nsf. Make sure you have the notes 6 version of bookmark.ntf (it's about 4meg in size). Edit the notes.ini and remove these 3 lines (if you have them):Setup=6023MailSetup=6023MailUpgradeFolder=6023Then relaunch notes. You'll probably be asked for your password twice, and then it will migrate your bookmarks again. After that, we've had no more issues.Hope that helps,Steve.On June 29, 2005 10:19 AM, Jason wrote:I had a simular issue. One day after a computer crash my computer was giving me an error indicting that I needed to update bookmark.ntf the template. In reality, I had to replace thier corrupted bookmark.nsf (database). I tried replacing the design of both the local template and database first to no avail.Hope this helps someone.On August 18, 2005 10:09 PM, Al wrote:My thanks to Steve Cave. Your info helped me get past a small hurdle. I had the same bookmark.ntf error tonight for one of my clients. To solve it, I deleted the client's bookmark.nsf & cache.ndk files, stripped the notes.INI file (down to the 1st 4 lines keeping [Notes], KitType, winiconpath & Directory lines. Then, I relaunched Notes and after completing the setup, the bookmarks migrated from the workspace successfully. Thanks.On May 19, 2006 08:44 PM, Omar Vivas wrote:Thaks you Mr Cave with yours help i can solve my problemOn December 26, 2006 05:11 PM, malcolm wrote:thanks had same problem. deleting bookmark.nsf solved the problem, was recreated OK.On February 26, 2007 06:39 PM, samir wrote:good knowledge sharing attitude i can see guys.thanks for sharing knowledge.On June 25, 2007 09:24 AM, Stephen wrote:Thanks for your help... I just renamed "bookmarks.nsf" to "bookmarks.nsf.old" and relaunched Notes to resolve this.On July 18, 2007 07:35 AM, Jenny wrote:Excellent. Just had employee with this issue and searched, found the thread and solved it immediately. On July 31, 2007 11:33 PM, Calypso wrote:Just had this error message for a client - ran the fix and worked perfectly!!Thanks a million!On October 03, 2007 07:56 PM, Kelly wrote:Just got this error from a user for no apparent reason. Tried what you suggested and it worked..! Thanks for the easy fix...!!On December 13, 2