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Notes Storage Format or NSF file is a database file used by Lotus Notes users to save emails, notes, contacts, calendars and other objects. Lotus Notes has a feature embedded in it, known as Access Control List (ACL) that is a list of permission attached to an object. Using this list, the administrator can apply a wide gamut of access rules for local users to access a particular file. By applying these access rules on NSF files, the NSF file owner is awarded with the privilege to open or manage the NSF file. Also, if any user who does not holds the access rights to that particular NSF file, tries opening the file, he comes across an error message saying -

“You are not authorized to perform that operation”

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Outlook stores your Personal Address Book information in a PAB file. There are times when you may need to copy the PAB file to a new computer or backup a PAB file. But nothing is possible till the time you are unable to locate and identify the PAB file your email profile is using. If you want to copy your PAB file to new computer or want to create a backup copy of it to deal with corruption issues, first of all find out the location of the PAB file.

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Archives are often termed as important records. In Novell GroupWise, the archives are usually created to minimize the size of Inbox and save important emails, so that they can be accessed anytime. Archive folder is a separate folder in Novell GroupWise that contains items of the mailbox which are archived by the user. Email clients like MS Outlook save the archives in the mailbox database although the case is totally different with Novell GroupWise email client.

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Microsoft Access database is useful utility, with which user is able to maintain databases for continuous management of information. Access database corruption can land you up in trouble. Mostly, the fatal system errors like an invalid page fault, an application exception error or a STOP error, force the Windows based applications such as Microsoft Access to fail and it just stops responding. Adding to worst, these errors even cause the operating system to stop responding.

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If you are dealing with Lotus Notes.NSF file, then some or the other time you must have came across the error message saying,

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Records are updated in tables or forms of .mdb files daily. There are various ways of updating the records in an Access database. Some methods are simple, convenient and effortless while others may need some coding.  For example, updating the record based on a query may not always turn out to be correct.

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