What happened
IBM® Lotus® Notes® can't find your NOTES.INI file.
NOTES.INI
is a customizable settings file that contains information about your use of Notes.
In order for Notes to
run, the NOTES.INI file must be in the search path.
Note: Instead
of this message, you may see a message saying that you need an up-to-date
BOOKMARK.NTF when you start Notes without a NOTES.INI file. You need both files
to start Notes.
What you can do
- In Windows®, make sure the PATH statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
file includes the directory that contains NOTES.INI (either your Notes program
directory or your Windows directory).
- If you accidentally deleted NOTES.INI, create a blank NOTES.INI file that
will be validated when you next open Notes. It should be an ASCII file named
NOTES.INI with [NOTES] as the first line, Directory= with the pathname to
your Notes data
directory (as in DIRECTORY=C:\NOTES\DATA) as the second line, and KitType=1
(to indicate a Notes installation)
as the third line. See your Domino® administrator for assistance.
- Reinstall Notes.
Macintosh users
On the Macintosh the
NOTES.INI file is a resource file called Notes Preferences, located in the Preferences
folder in your System folder.
Notes 8.5.3