Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes
Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes helps to repair Lotus Notes nsf files with messages, contacts, attachments and so on.
- Rating
- (18)
- (3)
- (0)
- (0)
- (0)
How to repair Lotus Notes data
Updated: 2025-04-05The manual for a repairing of messages, contacts, appointments and other data from corrupted Lotus Notes storage. How to repair damaged NSF file:
- Download, install and run Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes from here: https://recoverytoolbox.com/download/RecoveryToolboxForLotusNotesInstall.exe
- Please select a damaged NSF file on first page of repair wizard in Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes
- Press on Analyze button
- Select the saving method - either to a new or an existing database. You will also need to enter the name of the server and the destination database
- Press on Start Recovery button
IBM Lotus Notes NSF file repair tool
Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes helps to repair data from corrupted Lotus Notes *.nsf files. The Lotus Notes repair tool reads and analyzes incorrect *.nsf files and saves all recovered messages, contacts and other data into a new NSF file.
NSF file repair tool features:
- Repair Messages
- Repair Contacts
- Repair Tasks
- Repair Notes
- Repair Appointments
- Repair attachments and other data
- Preview repaired objects
- Save recovered data selectively
- Save repaired data into a new or existing database
- Save data into a local database or a server database
- The Lotus Notes nsf recovery tool has been successfully tested with Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11
- Fix corrupt Lotus Notes nsf files – all versions
- NSF Viewer Tool
- View and repair corrupted Lotus Notes store files (*.nsf files)
- Show the contents of damaged *.nsf files of Lotus Notes
Just download Lotus Notes database recovery tool. Install and start it. You only need to select a corrupted *.nsf file later. The software helps to fix NSF files automatically.
Free NSF File Viewer
Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes is very convenient to use for viewing the contents of the IBM Lotus Notes NSF file - a damaged or standard or both Lotus Notes database file. The tool can work as a viewer for NSF files even if you don’t have Lotus Notes installed. The tool allows you to open and view any NSF file for an unlimited number of times, including viewing letters, contacts, appointments, and other data from the Lotus Notes database.
Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes provides a full preview of Lotus Notes databases similar to the way it is implemented in most email programs. The tool opens NSF files for viewing, even if they are damaged. You can view NSF files for free and for an unlimited number of times without installing Lotus Notes.
How to Open a Corrupted NSF File for Free
Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes allows you to open a damaged Lotus Notes database for free and display all the data from a damaged NSF file on the preview page.
How to Restore a Lotus Notes Project
To restore letters, contacts, appointments and other things from the damaged Lotus Notes storage, you can use the last backup or return to the previous stable copy of the file, or try to use Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes. With a very high probability, Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes can restore personal data from *.nsf files to their original state before they were damaged. To test this statement, it is necessary to:
- Download, install, and run the DEMO version of Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes.
- Select a corrupted NSF file.
- Run an analysis of the damaged NSF file.
- Review the contents of the recovered Lotus Notes database on the preview page.
- Set up correct data export.
- Export recovered data to the new Lotus Notes database - available in the full version.
How to Fix Lotus Notes
If you need to fix the Lotus Notes repository, then the full version of Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes will allow you to do this in a few simple steps. Lotus Notes *.nsf files can be fixed by copying the revised data from the damaged NSF file to the new Lotus Notes database. This tool doesn’t fix or modify the existing NSF file. All recovered data transfers to the new Lotus Notes repository.
Notes:
- Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes does not repair the contents of encrypted Lotus Notes NSF files.
- Dates shown in the preview window of letter receipt/sending cannot be correctly imported into Lotus Notes due to IBM developer limitations.
Requirements:
- Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 or Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016 and above
- Lotus Notes must be installed to export recovered data into a database
Screenshots:

Select a file of *.nsf format to start working

The previewing of recovered information

The selection of path and method for the saving of recovered files

Viewing the exported information
Errors:
Lotus Notes recovery software can fix errors such as:
- Not a valid file.
- File is Corrupt.
- Error Reading File.
- File is not a database.
- A file error has occurred.
- The file appears to be corrupted.
- Not authorized to access that database.
- Database Corrupt - Cannot Allocate Space.
- File truncated – file may have been damaged.
- Server Error: This database cannot be read due to an invalid on disk structure.
- Not a valid file. Check the file types listed in the Open dialog to see which ones are supported. Then try opening the file using other file extensions.
How it Works:
Download software from website. Download
Start Install software:
- Press on downloaded installation file in browser
- Select a downloaded installation file in Windows Explorer and press Enter or double click on it.
Please confirm warning message:

Run installation wizard:




Run program:
- Double click on icon on desktop
or
- Select from main menu: Start | Programs | Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes | Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes

Please select a damaged NSF file on first page of repair wizard in Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes:

Press on Analyze button:

Please confirm a start of recovery process:

The program will start reading and analyzing the damaged NSF - this will take some time. After that, you will see a list of emails, contacts and other recoverable objects.

Press on Next button:

Select the saving method - either to a new or an existing database. You will also need to enter the name of the server and the destination database.

Press on Start Recovery button:

On last page shows a detailed log of recovery process:

Video:
Online help:
Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes (Download) is a specialized recovery tool intended for restoring data from damaged and corrupted files of the .nsf format. The software allows you to perform data recovery on your own, save on expensive and rarely fast third-party data recovery services and generally solve your problem in nearly no time. Thanks to a highly-intuitive interface with a bare minimum of control elements, the program can be efficiently used by users with just a basic level of computer skills and absolutely no experience in the field of data recovery.
If you are caught in a situation where a corrupted *.nsf won’t let you do your work properly and you urgently need to recover data from it, Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes will help you get the job done in no time.
Just follow the instructions below:

Make sure that Lotus Notes is installed on your computer prior to proceeding with the recovery process. The program uses some components of Lotus Notes to reproduce the original data structures and save recovered data.
Start the program. The first program screen is where you select the file you are going to work with. This can be done either by typing the name of the file into the central text field or by selecting a file from the list of files you used before. Therefore, either type the name of the file and its path into the input field in the center of the program window or use the standard Windows dialog by clicking a small folder button in the right part of the field. If you’ve already recovered files using the program and need to go back to a previously used NSF file, select it from a dropdown list that can be opened by clicking a downward arrow in the right part of the field. Once the selection is made, click the Analyze button to move forward with data recovery. When the program prompts you for confirmation to continue, answer affirmatively.
Wait for the file analysis to be over. Please note that this process may take a while even on relatively fast computers. Apparently, the duration of this task also depends on the size of the damaged file. Once this process is over, you will see a grid containing recoverable items.


The grid allows you to browse the list of recoverable items, preview them and mark them for recovery. You can sort the list by sender, recipient, subject line, date and presence of attachments. To do that, click a corresponding column header in the grid. When an item is selected, its content is shown in the lower part of the screen. The preview feature supports rich text formatting and allows you to preview messages in a nearly original form. To select specific items to be recovered, tick off corresponding boxes in the leftmost column of the grid. If you want to recover all available items, check the box located in the header of the first grid column. Once done, click Next.
The final step of the recovery wizard lets you specify the destination for the recovered data. This can either be a new database or an existing Lotus Notes database. In both cases, you will need to enter the name of the database. If the data should be saved to a remote sever, use the Server name field to specify its name. If you are saving data to a local database, leave this field blank. Click Start Recovery to save your data. Please note that you will need corresponding permissions (privileges) for saving to an existing database or a remote server. Also, if Lotus Notes is not running at the time of recovery, you will see a standard login/password prompt from Lotus Notes when RTLN attempts to save the data.


The program will save your data and show a recovery log with detailed information about the current recovery session. You can now finish working with the program by clicking Finish or go back to the main program screen using the Back button.
The main program menu contains just a few items: the NSF version autodetection switch, which is always enabled, and two commands in the Actions menu. The Clear file list command clears the list of previously used NSF files. The Send source file command lets you send the currently selected NSF file to the developers of the program if it fails to recover data for any reason. Running this command will open a page in your web browser with detailed instructions on submitting the damaged file and a manual recovery request to the developers of Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes. Once the developers receive your file, they will attempt to recover your data using special tools and their experience in this field.
Lotus Notes is a powerful communication and collaboration tool used primarily in corporate environments. With a total of around 150 million licenses sold worldwide, this suite is a direct competitor of the Microsoft Exchange Server + Outlook combo, both in terms of the feature sets offered and the estimated customer bases. The product uses the NSF format for storing both applications and their data at the same time. In fact, this is why Lotus Notes is often referred to as a document-centric system that is not relational by nature, which means that when an *.nsf file gets damaged, its data (and only its data) becomes completely unavailable to the system. Since Lotus Notes is primarily a corporate solution, losing business data may result in dramatic consequences on all levels of the company, from a minor delay in the work of a workgroup to a disastrous stoppage of all activities in an entire department, depending on how strongly your company depends on the data stored in Lotus Notes files. Unfortunately, NSF files are just as vulnerable to accidental corruption as all other files, so if you use Lotus Notes a lot and occasionally experience hardware and network failures of all sorts, having Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes always within reach is an unquestionably good idea.
Buying Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes:
Site License
for using on several computers of the customer (up to 100 electronic devices) in one building or distributed between several buildings
- An email with a registration code and instructions for activating this code will be sent to the user immediately after the payment confirmation.
- An email with a registration code will be sent from several different mail servers to prevent messages from appearing in SPAM filters. Accordingly, a possible duplication of registration letters received in the user's mailbox.
- To activate the registration code, you need to run the application in Windows under a user with Administrator rights.
- The number of Personal, Business or Site licenses activated simultaneously must not exceed the number of purchased licenses.
- We sell software via registration services PayPro Global and Noventiq. That is why not Recovery Toolbox, but the corresponding company will be specified in the payment documents.
The purchased registration key is valid for all 2.x versions of Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes.
Buying the License Renewal
Business License - 1 Year prolongation
for legal use in enterprise, commercial and governmental environments
Payment Services:
PayPro Global (PayPro Global, Inc., 250 The East Mall street, Etobicoke, ON Canada, M9B 0A9) is the fastest growing eCommerce company that develops customized solutions to help software producers to easily and effectively sell software online. PayPro Global supports more than one hundred currencies, all major credit cards, and a wide variety of payment options. PayPro Global offers efficient customer support 24/7 and provides personal attention to customers having special requirements.
Noventiq online store for licensed software opened in 2004. Noventiq offers customers over 15,000 programs from 3,000 developers, provides fast delivery (electronic and physical), accepts 20 payment methods, and includes a cumulative discount system. Noventiq specialists provide customers with all the necessary advice for purchasing licensed software. Selling software is our profession!
Resources:
- Lotus Notes on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes
- Official website of Lotus Notes: https://www.ibm.com/us-en
Why to choose IELTS General Training exam? Probably you are planning to do the IELTS exam, but find the academic version way too complicated; in this case IELTS General training might be your choice: in many cases it is enough to confirm your knowledge. And it becomes even easier, when you use the service Lang-Test IELTS General Training practice online. With its help, you can prepare quickly and efficiently, ending up with an IELTS certificate in hands in little to no time.
Customer's reviews and ratings:
EXCELENTE
Its a great invention by you it was not available before 2010
Best
nice
very good app
Very good
Because the source file only changed the way to open the file so that the file was updated somewhere, and after changing it again to the correct application, the file shows "file truncated". I don't think the source file has changed much, but the source file itself is 1.4G, which makes the recovery process too long, so I can try to optimize it.
Avoiding spam with file attachments, they can damage your mail as happened to me.
Don't open them. Of course, I understood that it would be impossible to return everything, but the necessary contacts and letters were repaired.
It is a pity that the program does not convert emails from Lotus Notes to .ost.
I used your two products of Recovery Toolbox for Lotus Notes and Recovery Toolbox for Outlook.
Very useful programs, saved time moving from one mail to another. I recommend.
I switched to Outlook a long time ago due to a damaged .nsf file. And one of the reasons to rapair Lotus Notes is to get old contacts back. In addition to contacts, I also got access to letters. The program coped with the task, I recommend
After repairing the .NSF file, Lotus Notes mail launch immediately. Such a joyful feeling, for the first time I was able to fix something on a PC without a boring IT department
I fixed a truncated Lotus Notes archive, I was able to recover something.
WhatTheF*ck ?
Where have you been before? I need such a program !!
I got a huge .NSF file that even Lotus Notes itself was slow to open!
And at some point, Lotus Notes decided to just damage the file so that we wouldn't torture it anymore.
We were looking for a solution to this problem for more than 3 days, 3 DAYS CARL !!!
Of course, your program also slightly wanted to f*cking send us, since the .NSF file took 6 hours to repair.
I managed to get contacts from a damage .nsf file. thanks
Damn, it’s impossible to believe it, I was able to get the contacts of my clients from the damaged Lotus Notes mailbox completely FREE!!! The program makes it possible to view the graying of 5 saved letters, from which I was lucky to get the contacts of my clients !!! You guys are super !!!
I was able to recover a corrupted mail from a local copy of the IBM Lotus .NSF file. Some recovered messages were recovered without attachments.
I forcefully closed the program after accidentally clicking on formatting. As a result, the .NSF file was damaged, Lotus notes can not open it. Using the program, it was possible to recover part of the remaining emails, the rest is not known, either it was deleted during formatting, or it was not restored.
When you extract a message from a damaged Lotus Notes email, pay attention to the notes written on the site, this program does not recover encrypted .NSF files. For my Lotus Notes email, this will not work because my damaged .NSF file was previously encrypted. 5 stars for saving my money!
User Friendly tool:
1. It has a great user friendly interface. Just in few clicks your file gets repaired NSF file.
2. It supports recovery IBM Lotus Notes 9
3. You can check your recovered data as preview option, so that you can restore your data accordingly at desired location.
4. Because of its simple user interface, non-technical user manage the tool efficiently.
Very unique tool. This tool is not only unique, it is especially effective. All my corrupted nsf docs were restored by this product.
It's really unique software. This tool rescued me three times when I had lost my .nsf files because of OS failures. Application restores not 100% of corrupted data.