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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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