Spell Check Freezing Notes - Interesting Find In The Last Place You Might Expect

    Robert Baehr  April 20 2021 03:45:06 AM
    Greetings:

    Recently, I had a user running Notes 10.0 (Basic) encounter a situation whereas the spell checker would freeze the Notes client.   I mean, complete lockup - task manager style!


    After checking all the usual NOTES.INI settings, preferences, deleting the NDK and local BOOKMARK.NSF file, etc. -- the problem continued to be a pain in the, you know... the thing!


    I took a deeper dive into the configuration, and noticed that the user was a roaming user.    I visited the folder containing the user's roaming files and discovered that BOOKMARK.NSF was a staggering 500GB in size.   Yes, you read that correctly - 500GB!


    I ran the usual maintenance utilities (COMPACT, with file size reduction - FIXUP - UPDALL) on the roaming BOOKMARK.NSF, and got it down to 150GB.   Still large, but a lot smaller than it was before.


    Once done, spell check worked perfectly, and continues to do so to this day.


    Just a simple reminder to check up on those roaming Notes files now and then - they are part of the environment, and, need some love, too.....


    Happy Computing!


    Robert Baehr

    The Unofficial Poster Child for Notes and Domino