Lotus Notes (NSF) Recovery Software

Lotus Notes File Recovery Software Details

Stellar Phoenix Lotus Notes Recovery v1.0 is an absolute Lotus Notes Recovery tool that repairs NSF files of any size and number of folders. Though the software demo version shows headers of only five emails and items in respective folders, but the actual restored NSF file contains all the recoverable content without any modifications. This NSF File Recovery software stores all the recoverable objects in a new, directly-usable NSF file, which is saved at default (root) location or at any other destination that the user specifies.

The software supports Lotus Attachment Recovery for all types of e-mail attachments. Preview of the attachments' headers is also available with the software demo version, before you proceed to recover that. It also serves as an ideal solution for Lotus Contact Recovery, recovery of Lotus To-Do, recovery of Journals, and Lotus Calendar Recovery.

The Lotus Notes File Recovery software features various toolbar and menubar options that aid while repairing the file. On starting the recovery application, it displays a dialog-box that allows you to search the corrupted NSF file. It further allows (gives an option) changing the location of the repaired NSF file and, lists the file repair steps in concise form.

The initial 'Select NSF File' dialog box has six buttons described underneath:

• Select NSF File: This button allows you to browse for locating the required NSF file from a pre-determined location. It opens a dialog-box that can be used to select the file directly.
• Find NSF File: This option helps in situations in which you don't know the exact file location, but the root folder or drive. It opens a 'Search Options' dialog box that lets you select the target folder or drive and locate the corrupt NSF file(s). It searches and enlists all the file(s) with *.nsf extension in 'Search Results' box and allows to select any of them. The 'Search Results' box also has a 'Clear List' button to clear the search results and start a new search.
• Change Destination: By default, the software restores the new NSF file at the root location (generally, C:\program files\lotus\notes\data). However, the 'Change Destination' option allows changing that.
• Start: On selecting the NSF file and specifying restoration location, the 'Start' button gets activated and when pressed scans the file. The scanning status is shown simultaneously.
  Note: The software takes approximately 30-45 minutes to scan a 1 GB file.
• Help: This button opens the help file of Lotus Notes Recovery software.
• Close: This button closes the dialog box.

Toolbar Options:

The main toolbar options with their specific functions are:

• Select NSF File to Repair: This button when clicked opens the 'Select NSF File' dialog box to select and search the file.
• Stop: This button stops the file recovery process.
• View Help Topics: It opens the software help file.
• Updates: This button allows you to download and install the latest updates.
• About Stellar Phoenix Lotus Notes Recovery: It opens a new window that gives general information about the software.

Menubar Options:

• File: This menu lists options like 'Open' to open the initial file select dialog box, 'Save Log' to save the log report generated by the software as .txt file, 'Clear Log' to clear the log reports saved, and 'Exit' to close the software.
• View: This menu has sub-options such as Log View, Toolbar and Status Bar. Log View opens a log window at the bottom of the interface that shows information about the current process. Toolbar allows showing or hiding the toolbar. Status Bar shows and hides the status bar.
• Activation: This menu has options for activating the product online and registering the product manually.
• Help: It enlists several options, like, view generic software information, get the software updates online, open a software help guide, technical contact information, file ticket, and open the company's knowledge base.

You can follow these steps to recover file using Lotus Notes File Recovery software:

• Start the application. Select or search the NSF file using 'Select NSF File' dialog box. If you close this dialog box initially, reopen it using 'Select NSF File to Repair' toolbar option or using 'Open' menubar option.
• Click 'Change Destination' to specify the location for storing the file, which, by default, is the root or default location. The file scanning process starts.
• After completing the scan, the software displays the details of the recovery process, including file specifications (name and path) of the restored file along with the number of e-mails, contacts, and other objects it recovers.

The recovered file is saved with the same name and extension, but with a prefix 'Recovered' in a folder that is named in a specific format- 'Recovered_day_month_date_time'.

Important to Note:

• In demo version of software, you can view only five items per folder. The actual file restored by the software has all the items that it could recover.
• IBM Lotus Notes should be installed to run the demo or full version of the software
• The demo version also creates a separate NSF file with contents same as the application.
• The demo version allows previewing ONLY the headers (No Content) of emails and attachments

Download and test the free demo version of the software to assess its recovery abilities and advanced features.