Lotus Notes was developed by IBM in
1989. Till now IBM has launched 6 versions of Lotus Notes and the
latest one is 8.5.3 which was released in October 2011. The
functionality increases in Lotus Notes like to send/receive emails,
manage contacts, notes, conduct voice and video conferencing, online
meetings, discussions, etc. Unlike Outlook, Lotus Notes stores all
the data in NSF format. This NSF file is called “Notes Storage
Facility”. Lotus Notes works with the Domino server. If user makes
some changes in offline mode then Lotus Notes synchronizes with
Domino Server as soon as connection becomes available. Every mailbox
in NSF has multiple files like outbox.nsf, inbox.nsf etc. and the
contact addresses are stored as names.nsf.
Now we come to some error messages taht
comes often:-
“Error: Invalid character in
file name”
The above error stops you to do
different operation like archiving of the files.
Cause:
The root cause for the above error is
that your name of the file or path of the file contains an invalid
characters like non-alphanumeric character. Due to this reason it
prompts above error message on the system screen.
Resolution:
Resolving such issue needs following
steps. These steps prove beneficial to overcome above error message
and are follows:
(1) Go to Notes command menu, different
options will be shown. From the listed options, select the
Actions
from the menu. Do all the actions when your Inbox is open.
(2)
From the drop down menu select Archive.
Then go to Tools,
select 'Archive
Settings'.
(3)
Choose the 'Advanced'
tab.
(4)
One condition is that the path of the file must not contain any
non-alphanumeric characters in Log
all archiving activity
into log database.
(5)
It is possible to include non-alphanumeric characters in a file name,
use the Browse
icon and take/pick out the correct log database file name. This tells
that the file name chosen is up to mark or valid even it contains
non-alphanumeric characters.
If this technique is not working then
for the NSF file recovery you can use Stellar Phoenix Lotus Notes Recovery Software that is
perfect to recover data from the corrupted Notes Server and saved all
information for the later use at user preffered location.
