Troubleshooting Lotus Notes Error “File Cannot be Created”

An integral part of business processes is its communication. For a collaborative, real time working environment one of the most efficient email cilents deployed extensively is IBM Lotus Notes. Lotus Notes is a popular email client application similar to Microsoft's Outlook and is a favorite among copious large and small enterprises.

Just like the other email applications, Lotus Notes is also not free from errors and corruptions. Under these circumstances, the primary resolve is to perform Lotus Notes Recovery using the following utilities:


Fixup -f
Compact- i -c -d -K
Updall -R

But some errors are resolved through these utilities. While working on Lotus Notes often an error message saying “File Cannot be Created” pops up when the user tries to access the emails and data. The aforestated error message is encountered when there is an application memory leak or application resource conflict.

In order to resolve this error, delete the cash.ndk file and relaunch Lotus Notes. Often times this does not seem to be a permanent resolve for many users. If the problem reappears, then it could be a case of corruption. Perform the following steps for Lotus Notes Recovery:

1.Quit Lotus Notes.
2.Open Tools -> Folder Options -> Select the View tab and under hidden files and folders check “Show Hidden files and folders” check box.
3.Search for Notes.Data.* directory.
4.Delete this and relaunch the Notes application.

This will remove the corrupt file or directory to resolve the error. If somehow the issue is not resolved, then, don't panic. Professional third party utilities such as “Stellar Phoenix Lotus Notes Recovery” are available. This powerful tool can repair and restore the Lotus Notes database file for all major versions of Notes and is easy to use. The scan information can be saved to carry out the recovery process at a later time. The software preserves the file formatting of the emails and messages during recovery.

This is an adroit NSF file recovery tool that can restore all the emails, contacts, notes, journals, attachments, calendar items etc. The demo version of the software offers a preview of the first five items per folder and supports Lotus Notes versions 7.x and 6.x. This utility is designed with compatibility for Windows7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, 2000 and NT (SP6).

Rectify Lotus Notes exception with the help of a Lotus Notes Recovery tool

Receiving error messages in Lotus Notes application is a common experience. Lotus Notes e-mail client some times exhibits unusual behavior. Instead of providing you right to access e-mail application, it starts throwing different error messages. These error messages makes you unable to use Notes e-mail application. This all happens because Lotus Notes application becomes corrupt. In order to overcome such situation, a third party Lotus Notes Recovery tool can be used to Recover Lotus Notes database.

Let's consider an error message that appears on the screen when you try to open Lotus Notes Client in your system but you fails with an error message that utters like same as written below:

“An error has occurred in a Lotus Notes application. Data about the error is being collected for your company's help desk for use in error analysis. The Lotus Notes application will close when data collection is complete ".
After getting above error message, data of the Lotus Notes client cannot be accessed.

Cause:

Above error message is caused because Lotus Notes e-mail application is corrupt. Due to corrupt Lotus Notes e-mail application, data cannot be accessed. In order to Recover Lotus Notes, you need to find out the solution.

Resolution:

For resolving above error message you need to follow the below steps:

(1) Take a exit from Lotus Notes application. Delete the log.nsf and cache.ndk files from the location C:\notes\data directory.

(2) Start Lotus Notes application again.

(3) Perform a break down of Lotus Notes application.

(4) Install Lotus Notes application again.

If problem gets solved by doing above steps, then it is fine. Otherwise, use a third party Lotus Notes Repair tool to Repair Lotus Notes e-mail application. Such tools recover all its mail-objects, such as contacts, attachments, appointments, appointments, journal, tasks, calendar-entries, To-do, and more. For searching out the tool, you do not need to do some extra efforts. Just search on Google. You will get a number of tools that are specially developed to recover Lotus Notes application. These tools do not demand for sound technical skills.

Stellar Phoenix Lotus Notes Recovery v2.0 is a highly-commendable tool used to Recover Lotus Notes and all its objects. It restores the file into a location that can be easily detected by a host operating system. The tool performs Lotus Notes Recovery of Lotus Notes 6.x and 7.x. The tool provides a Live update option to install the recent software updates. The tool is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, Server 2000, 7, 2003, and NT (SP6).

Resolving Lotus Notes Error: Attachment found on more than one document

Now-a-days IBM Lotus Notes is becoming a very vital e-mail application that provides you to perform all the mail operations, such as  e-mailing, calendaring, scheduling, programming etc as also present in other e-mail applications like MS Outlook, Outlook Express etc. Lotus Notes Domino server generally employs POP3 & SMTP protocols. Like PST is for MS Outlook, DBX is for Outlook Express, IBM Lotus Notes consists of NSF file as its data file which enables you to access Lotus Notes database, even in offline mode. Many times while working with IBM Lotus Notes you can encounter various error messages which dont allow you access many features of Lotus Notes database like sending/recieving e-mails, not allowing you to open the database etc.

Corrupt Lotus Notes database is the main reason for the occurrence of such errors. Along with database corruption, internal settings also play a major role in the generation of such error messages. In such situations, Lotus Notes users can use different tools such as  Fixup, Compact, update and NT Check Disk utilities for their removal. However these utilities may create some exceptions which might result in obtaining improper results. Therefore in order to get proper results, Lotus Notes users can make use of a suitable Lotus Notes Recovery software that can Recover Lotus Notes database with great proficiency.

To illustrate the above problem consider the following example: Suppose you are trying to copy a rich-text field that contains more than one attachment from one document to another Lotus Notes document, you encounter a below mentioned erro message:

"Error: Attachment found on more than one document."

The error message clearly indicates that you cant copy a rich-text field due to the presence of attachment on more than one document & hence cannot be copied to another document.

Cause:

This error occurs when a RTItem containing an attachment is copied via copyitem. Moreover corrupt NSF file is also responsible for the occurrence of this error.

Solution:
In order to solve this error message, you can follow below mentioned steps:

Method 1:

(1) First create a new “NotesRichTextItem”.

(2) After doing this, then use AppendRTItem method on “NotesRichTextItem”.

(3) AppendRTItem Method is given as follows:

Dim docA As NotesDocument
Dim docB As NotesDocument
Dim rtitemA As Variant
Dim rtitemB As Variant
'...set values of docA and docB...
Set rtitemA = docA.GetFirstItem( "Body" )
Set rtitemB = docB.GetFirstItem( "Body" )
If ( rtitemA.Type = RICHTEXT And _
rtitemB.Type = RICHTEXT ) Then
Call rtitemA.AppendRTItem( rtitemB )
Call rtitemB.Remove
Call docA.Save( False, True )
Call docB.Save( False, True )
End If

(4) After completing AppendRTItem method, you can easily copy a rich-text field that contains more than one attachment from one document to another Lotus Notes document.

However if the above method doesn't solve your problem, then perform Lotus Notes Repair with the help of a suitable third party Lotus Notes Recovery tool. Many tools are available in the market that are specifically designed to repair & restore corrupt Lotus Notes database. Stellar Phoenix Lotus Notes Recovery v2.0 is one such software.

Stellar Phoenix Lotus Notes Recovery v2.0 tool is a powerful tool to Repair NSF File & hence removes the corruption of Lotus Notes database. This Lotus Notes Recovery software supports IBM Lotus Notes 6.x and 7.x and provides you with an option to restore data in a new NSF file that is saved on any disk and can be detected by a host operating system. In addition to this, it also creates a log report of every recovery operation & saves it as a Text Editor (.txt) file. It also comes with a Live Update feature which helps in installing recent software updates.