Ran into something rather annoying today. I have the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 client installed on my laptop and my desktop. From my laptop I had opened an e-mail, then closed my Notes client which also saves the state of all the opened tabs. Later on from my desktop I had deleted the same e-mail.

When I reopened the Lotus Notes client from my laptop it (the client) re-opened all my previous tabs, including the e-mail I had deleted from the client on my desktop. Long story short, when I tried to do anything the client just hung. Super annoying when you’re busy and trying to get something done before a meeting…

Fixing this dilemma is simple. Open the Notes client which had the tabs, including the deleted e-mail open. Now click on File -> Preferences, go to ‘Windows and Themes’ and make sure the first option ‘On restart, reopen any tabs that were open when I closed the client’ is not selected. Close and reopen the Notes client et voilà!

Now that Lotus Notes 8.5.1 is behaving again you can go back and reselect that option; if you want naturally ;)