Category: Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes data directory on Windows Vista

Just installed and old CD with Lotus Notes 7.02 on my Windows Vista laptop.Could not find notes.ini, names.nsf in the file system, apparently it’s no longer stored in C:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\Data. After some searching I found it here: C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\lotus\notes\data>

Things I miss from Notes in Outlook + Desktop Search for Lotus Notes released

I used Lotus Notes as email client for many years, starting with Notes R2 up to R6, and for the last 3 years I’ve been using Outlook 2003. Both have their pro’s and con’s. When I started using Outlook I loved the UI and the Office integration. But there are (at least) two things I… Continue reading Things I miss from Notes in Outlook + Desktop Search for Lotus Notes released

How to access a locked down Notes database and one more thing

I don’t do much Notes development these days but every now and then it happens. The last few days I’ve been spending some time with Notes doing a few modifications to a client’s system and came across these two problems: The client emailed me two Notes database but forgot to uncheck “Enforce a consistent Access… Continue reading How to access a locked down Notes database and one more thing

How to sort a NotesDocumentCollection in Lotusscript

This Lotusscript function sorts a document collection on one or multiple fields. I have previously used several other algorithms that use a view to sort the collection, these however have the drawback that they become very inefficient (i.e. slow) as the number of documents in the view used for sorting grows. The solution presented below… Continue reading How to sort a NotesDocumentCollection in Lotusscript