Repairing corrupted NSF file due to compaction in Lotus Domino 7.0.3

Lotus Notes is a popular email client and personal information manager that is developed and marketed by IBM. It is an integrated desktop client program that is used for emailing, calendaring, managing the PIM, instant messaging, Web browsing, and what not. All such information of Lotus Notes is stored in an NSF file. The size of the NSF file can be defined, and when the size of the NSF file nears the size limit you should compact the file to prevent corruption and, thus, data loss. However, sometimes compacting an NSF file, too, may result in its corruption. In such case, you should repair the NSF file using a third-party NSF File Recovery software to Repair NSF File.Consider a scenario wherein you have Lotus Domino 7.0.3 FP1 installed on your Windows Server 2003 system. You put the databases for compaction every night while leaving for the day. However, when you come back the next day you find that few databases have corrupted. An error message is displayed, that is:“Error compacting Mail *.nsf: Database is corrupt -- Cannot allocate space”Cause:The root cause of this error message is that the NSF file has corrupted. The corruption of the NSF file can happen due to various reasons such as virus infections, human errors, power outages, checksum mismatch, corrupt header of the NSF file, etc. Resolution:To resolve this error message, you should create a copy of the NSF file and then use the following command to fix the corrupted database.“load fixup ”This command should be able to fix the errors in the NSF file. However, if the issue is not resolved then you should use a third-party Lotus Notes Recovery software. Such read-only tools are highly interactive and do not require any high-end technical knowledge to Repair Lotus Notes. Also, these tools do not overwrite the existing data while scanning the NSF file using fast yet sophisticated algorithms.Stellar Phoenix Lotus Notes Recovery is a Lotus Notes Recovery software that recovers corrupted NSF files and save the contents in a new and clean NSF file. It is able to recover various objects of Lotus Notes such as emails, attachments, contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists, journals, etc. This NSF File Recovery tool is able to display the preview of headers of five items per folder. In addition, this tool provides the Live Update option to get the latest definitions of the software from the Internet. It supports Lotus Notes 6.x and 7.x versions. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and Server 2000.