What has happened to my unread marks

Hi, like many of you I’m having a problem with unread marks. Although my problem seems to be slightly different in that most posts seem to discuss documents marked as read showing up as unread at a later point in time.

In my case I only work from a local replica of my mail file. When a new message arrives at the server I replicate it on a scheduled basis and the mail comes down to my client and is always “unread”. When I read the message it is marked “Read”.

Today this stopped working - in my server mail file I can see new mail with unread marks but always when I replicate locally the unread mark is lost and the mail shows as “read”.

Set up is as follows:

  1. Notes 6.5 client with 6.5 Domino Web Access mail template design on Windows XP

  2. Domino 6.0.1 server on Windows 2000

I have tried implementing “Replicate unread marks” on the DB Properties advanced tab. Have added Replicator_Sync_unread=1 to my local Notes.INI and have deleted cache.ndk all to no avail.

Like I said this has suddenly stopped working this morning.

Note: 1 week ago we clustered the mail server… but everything was OK.

Thanks for any advice

Mike

Subject: What has happened to my unread marks

Hi - here just a few standard action items…1. dump your local replica and pick up a new one from the server

  1. check your Notes installation, is it “clean” if you suspect not then dump it and install from scratch

  2. I don’t know about the file desktop6.ndk but in previous releases this one was related to the unread marks… and since the stupid (sorry, my oppinion) “workspace” is still there I think the link is also. So try to remove it and see if it will be re-created and perhaps the problem will gi away.

  3. If you don’t like to do that you can always try to compact the workspace…

This is just the normal stuff so I am sorry if you expected some magic wand tric

/Joachim

Subject: RE: What has happened to my unread marks

Yes I was making a new replica when your post popped up.

I had hoped to avoid this because my mail file is quite large, but anyway that did seem to do the trick.

I did get rid of the desktop for good measure.

Like you I can’t think why IBM retain the Workspace. It is preventing users from fully adopting all the good features of Notes.

I wish there was a switch perhaps on a desktop setup profile where access to the workspace could be “prevented”

Thanks anyway

Mike