Increase in number of "corrupt docs" since Domino upgrade 6.5 to 8.5

Hi folks,

Until a couple of months ago we had been running Notes 6.5.2 with Domino 6.5. Occasionally we saw corruption of documents with the message “Ignoring portions of document that were modified with another version of Notes”. This is discussed on these forums. It occurred with documents that had attachments and especially graphic images embedded in rich-text fields.

Since we upgraded the Domino servers to v8.5, we have been seeing this error a lot more frequently. It seems to be occurring with some documents that could be read without errors before, and with some new documents. Nothing else has changed, including the designs of the various databases.

Can anyone advise on why this is happening and what we might do about it? The sharp increase in the frequency of the problem is causing complaints across the whole firm, at all levels.

Some of the odd symptoms are;

  • A document cannot be opened in a particular database replica due to this error. However, the same document CAN be opened in a replica on a different server.

  • Sometimes one user reports that a document is corrupted, but another user can open the SAME document on the SAME server without an error.

Any advice appreciated! Best wishes, Ian

Subject: Issues as well

I have the same issue but strangely with only 1 user. It is hard to say how far back his corruption goes, but after we upgraded him to 8.5.2 he “noticed” the documents he could no longer read the attachments for. I thought maybe it was the R8 upgrade but I went back 6 months and it was the same in R7.5. Strangely he is the only user that has come forward and that I have even seen in the last 500 upgrades to R8.5.2. very strange

Subject: Advice received so far

In case it helps anyone else, the two suggestions we have received so far are;1) Back out the Domino server upgrade - put them back to 6.5x, OR…

  1. Upgrade everyone’s Notes client from 6.5.2 to at least 7.x

I still welcome other ideas since neither of these is feasible in my firm in the short term.

Best wishes, Ian