Saturday
Apr262003
R5 Alarms fix
April 26, 2003
I've heard from a few folks who, like me, did not seem to have working alarms in their Notes calendars. For me this had been the case for at least a month, but it wasn't a high enough priority for me to worry about.
Today I decided to figure out what was wrong. There are 3 possible fixes I found with a quick Internet search (and there are probably more):
[1] Hold down when opening one's mail file. Look at the normally-hidden ($Alarms) view and delete any documents with errors. I had about 15 documents that were listed at the top of the view, with the displayed line starting with "ERROR:". I deleted those and tested alarms (my standard test is to restart Notes and create a reminder scheduled to fire a minute or two in the future). Alarms still didn't work.
[2] Check Notes.ini and ensure that there is a line in there that looks like this: $EnableAlarms=1 ....mine was $EnableAlarms=0, which should prevent alarms from working. I edited Notes.ini to set the parameter to "1", restarted Notes, and alarms now work. I have no idea how that parameter changed, since my alarms had worked quite well for over a year.
[3] I didn't have to try this 3rd option, but another post suggested going into one's Inbox, then selecting Tools/Preferences.../Calendar/Free Time and changing anything in there (like adding and deleting a space) and then clicking OK to save and exit. That will apparently kick-start the alarms, and a colleague says that seems to have been the case for her a while back.
Like most of the company, I'm running Win2k with R5 and the company standard mail template. Judging from the number of posts I found on the 'net, many have experienced this problem (at least with the Win2k and R5 combo). Hopefully posting here might help someone else.
Today I decided to figure out what was wrong. There are 3 possible fixes I found with a quick Internet search (and there are probably more):
[1] Hold down
[2] Check Notes.ini and ensure that there is a line in there that looks like this: $EnableAlarms=1 ....mine was $EnableAlarms=0, which should prevent alarms from working. I edited Notes.ini to set the parameter to "1", restarted Notes, and alarms now work. I have no idea how that parameter changed, since my alarms had worked quite well for over a year.
[3] I didn't have to try this 3rd option, but another post suggested going into one's Inbox, then selecting Tools/Preferences.../Calendar/Free Time and changing anything in there (like adding and deleting a space) and then clicking OK to save and exit. That will apparently kick-start the alarms, and a colleague says that seems to have been the case for her a while back.
Like most of the company, I'm running Win2k with R5 and the company standard mail template. Judging from the number of posts I found on the 'net, many have experienced this problem (at least with the Win2k and R5 combo). Hopefully posting here might help someone else.
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