Error 1490

I’ve got a C API program that accesses a mail .nsf file. When trying to extract attachments, using the API calls “MailExtractMessageAttachment” or “NSFNoteExtractFile” the Notes API is returning error 1490, defined as “the object store database is disabled”. What does this error mean? How does a store get disabled, and can it be re-enabled?(note: this problem is only on a certain .nsf file, it works most of the time).