Posts tagged Lotus Notes 8.5.1

If you’re trying to upgrade the Lotus Notes 8.5 client to 8.5.1 and receive the following error, “Cannot upgrade AllClient installation to Notes client. The upgrade you are attempting is not supported”, simply edit the notes.ini and change the InstallType=2 to InstallType=6.

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