Lotus Notes Error File Already Exists
Notes: Resolving "File Already Exists" issues Published 16/05/2008 By Aleksander Nordgarden-Rødner 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 show this to be a problem related to the bookmark.nsf-file. The Solution Lotus Notes has *.nsf files, database files, and *.ntf files, database template files. Knowing this, the solution to this problem is as follows: Find the Lotus Notes data folder (Typically located at C:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\Data) Locate the bookmark.nsf file Rename the file to bookmarks.nsf_old or something like that Restart Lotus Notes Lotus Notes will then recreate the bookmarks.nsf file using bookmarks.ntf Related Categories:Lotus Notes Tags:Corrupt bookmarks.nsfFile Already ExistsOffline Folders Previous Post Internet Explorer and me (Or: Why I choose) Next Post Problems accessing local drives in Citrix 3 Comments radzimir Thank You, it works!!! Under OS X it is: rm "~/Library/Application Support/Lotus Notes Data/bookmark.nsf" 18/03/2009 Reply Anvik Worked in LINUX! Thanks 20/02/2014 Reply Chris Thanks ! Worked like charm !!! 19/02/2015 Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Chosen WordPress Theme by Compete Themes. This site uses cookies: Find out more.Okay, thanks
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Reply Subscribe RELATED TOPICS: i have some issue with my lotus notes, error csevennotes i dont knowt what is Lotus notes 8.5.2 desktop8.nlk error lotus notes error   13 Replies Chipotle OP Rob503 Aug 12, 2014 at 9:21 UTC First thing to try is close Notes then find the local Bookmarks.nsf and rename it so the client creates a new one when you start it. Start the client and https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/559007-lotus-notes-fails-to-open-with-the-error-file-already-exists see if the issue has resolved. If so, it was a corrupt bookmarks.nsf and you can carry on - if it still happens it is something else so close Notes and put the old bookmarks.nsf back. 2 Jalapeno OP Henry Maxwell Aug 12, 2014 at 9:29 UTC The above might be occurring due to corrupt bookmark.nsf file. The issue can be easily fixed by rebuilding the bookmark.nsf file 0 Serrano OP Paul007 Aug 12, 2014 at 9:31 UTC As Rob said rename or delete the bookmark.nsf file in your Data folder. If it is an older Notes client then you may need to create a new bookmark.nsf on another client and then copy it into the Data folder. 0 Pimiento OP stevesmith2 Aug 13, 2014 at 2:46 UTC Thank you all for your responses. I have deleted the old bookmark file and created a new one but it didn't help. Any other way to fix the issue? 0 Jalapeno OP Henry Maxwell Aug 13, 2014 at 3:32 UTC Have you tried repairing the corrupt NSF file using Fixup, Updall & Compact tool? 0 Chipotle OP Rob503 Aug 13, 2014 at 5:54 UTC Per Henry above launch a command line and cd to the notes data directory, then run Training Support Forums & community Events Rational Tivoli WebSphere Java technology Linux Open source SOA and Web services Web development XML My developerWorks About dW Submit content Feedback http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/DateAllThreadedWeb/9d789b868f57d7a4852576870079aa78 developerWorks>Lotus>Forums & community>IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Lotus Notes Traveler) IBM Lotus http://recover-email.blogspot.com/2013/03/repair-corrupt-bookmarknsf-to-resolve.html Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Lotus Notes Traveler) Sign in to participate Previous Next Subject: File Already Exists Feedback Type: Problem Product Area: Notes Client Technical Area: Install Platform: Windows XP client Release: 8.5.1 Reproducible: Always I have a fresh user install that I'm trying to perform and everything goes well until I lotus notes enter the password and then click Next or Finish at the last screen....then when it starts the client and begins loading I get a File Already Exists error message. Of course there is no indication of what file it's talking about, so I'm stuck. Any suggestions out there? Feedback number SCAN7YKU8H created by Steve Castellion on 12/09/2009 Status: Open Comments: Return to top File Already Exists lotus notes error (Steve Castellio... 9.Dec.09) . . Problem Solved (Steve Castellio... 9.Dec.09) Printer-friendly Search this forum Search this forum Sign In or Register Sign In or Register Sign in Forgot your password? Forgot your user name? 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The Bookmark.nsf file corruption may lead the Notes user to troublesome situations. It may lead to system slow down as well as the user may face several error 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 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 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, i