This is my first post in the Lotus Forum & Community. I registered today. First, my background - it may help to understand my actual question.
I am an intern on IBM Brasil, working with Market Intelligence. We have a Domino Server, I suspect it is version 6.x, running on a Windows 2000 platform. We (a four person team) have a database we use almost weekly, which is stored in this computer, running through this server. We access it through our Notes client, all running on Windows XP platform.
Last week, this database gave us this error - “Invalid NSF version”. All of us have Notes 7. I have no idea what happened. Being in charge of said database (which was not made by me; the person who created it no longer works for IBM) it is on me to solve this problem.
Then another problem surges: I know next to nothing about servers, and nothing at all about this particular one (Domino). There is nobody I can turn to, as marketing people aren’t really computer-savvy. Conclusion: I need help.
Given your details I suspect the database may have been created on R7 client and copied to the R6 server via the OS and now there is a db with R7 ODS on a R6 server that cannot read it. You can try running compact -R on it to see if it will revert the ODS back to R6. Other than that I would need to know more details
Mm, I’d suppose so as well, but this database has been running since before the R7… one suggestion given to me is that someone tried to edit it in R7 and now it doesn’t recognize the file…
It shouldn’t matter if someone edited it with a R7 client as long as the db is on a R6 server as it shouldn’t change the ODS of the file. Come to think of it, not sure if the compact -r will work at all since the server is already R6. That might try and revert it to R5. Do you have a backup of the db you can restore from before the error began to occur? Or does anyone have a local replica on the workstation that they can create a new replica with? If someone has a good up-to-date replica on their workstation just delete the bad file on the server and replicate a new one up from the client.
try copying the file from the server to your computer and see if you can open it locally. Be sure to copy it at the OS level. If you can open it locally this is good. Then delete the file from the serer then manually replicate a new replica up from your Notes client to the server.
Eh, it seems we’re doomed. When I try to open this copy locally, it gives me an error - “This database has local access protection and you are not authorized to access it locally”…
yeah, sounds like it was encrypted with the server ID. If this is the case you may be out of luck. If I think of anything else I will let you know but for now I am at a loss.
When you make a copy of the database, you have the option to either copy or not copy the access control list - its a checkbox in the dialog box when creating a new copy of a database
