Hi all,
I have a user that gets the following message everytime she starts and closes Lotus Notes…
Removing the Database will delete X private view(s). Remove anyway?
No idea what database it is or where to find it. She is afraid to say yes for good reason and the X grows.
How do I determine what database it is trying to delete? I saw posts on this in the forum but not one on how to find what the DB is.
thanks!!
Subject: Removing the Database will delete X private view … which DB?
Check with user if he/she might have created any private views recently in any database, if it is happenning only for this particular user.
First thing is if the view is “Shared Private on first use view”, when a user access the view it creates a private copy for that user. It is not harmful to delete those views as they are private and keep on getting created whenever user access the related database with default “shared private on first use views”. Hard part is to find from which database, this is happening.
Try finding the database from the user’s history, when user login into LotusNotes. See if you can find the same database name for last three days. Check if there are ‘X’ number of “shared private on first use” views (with a key symbol) and then the created private views from these views at the bottom of the views in designer.
Subject: Removing the Database will delete X private view … which DB?
Hi xie xie !
The information about databases which are to be deleted is hidden in the desktop6.ndk.
I fixed the problem ‘my way’ in forcing a new notes client - setup:
In notes.ini, i removed all lines except the first two lines. So it looked like this:
[Notes]
KitType=1
(creating ab backup-copy of notes.ini before is a good idea 
)
After that i removed the destop6.ndk from my notes-directory (needless to say that creating a backup-copy…).
Then i started notes and went through the setup-dialog-boxes. Hooray, no more messages about databases which are to be deleted !
Please be very carful with this tip, it worked on my special notes-installation (V6.0.3 on WinXP). I cannot guarantee it will work on your machine as well as on mine.
In german we say ‘i press my thumbs’ which means: good luck !
Greetings Manfred