Client notes.ini files (including my own) get date fragments, blank lines and variable fragments in them. When I manually delete these stray characters, the user’s machine will run far better. We don’t set many environmental variables in apps, but have a few.
Has anyone seen this kind of behavior? We have inspected our new machine image and have found that it has a standard four line default INI, so we know the machines start clean.
This is an example of some of the bad data from a user’s INI. I included some good settings just to show how the bad data is mixed in with the rest.
I have the exact same issue that has been happening at a large installation for over a year now. It is happening on both 6.5.3 and 8.0.2 clients. We have not been able to find a cause for it yet, but it definitely can throw the Notes client for a loop. Any number of strange behaviors have happened, from crashes and hangs to one user being prompted 3 times to confirm when double-clicking an attachment and then selecting open before the file would launch, even though when they would right-click and select open it would perform normally. The lines that appear to be the last three digits of the year plus a time such as:
009 11:23:45 AM
can repeat HUNDREDS of times in some of the notes.ini files, sometimes the same numbers but usually different. Normal notes.ini lines can be mixed in as well or there can be any number of the lines like the one above in a row.
If ANYONE has figured out what causes this please share it.