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asifmtr
120 pts.
 Recent Contacts feature not working after Lotus Notes upgrade
Lotus Notes 8.2, Lotus Notes 8.5.1, Lotus Notes Address Book, Lotus Notes Upgrades
After upgradation from 8.2 to 8.5.1 . Recent Contacts feature not wroking . option “Disable type-ahead for all name fields and use the Notes Basic type-ahead.” is already Uncheck the

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Lotus nOtes 8.5.1 FP3
ASKED: February 8, 2011  11:00 PM
UPDATED: June 18, 2012  9:07 AM
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hi , whn i upgraded ...my contacts gone invisible & Then i have added a fresh contact addition.
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Check out FILE > Preferences > CONTACTS

This should tell you if it is turned on or not.

Gabe9527
 10,615 pts.
 

HI
Thnx for ur reply . I’ve already uncheck FILE > Preferences > CONTACTS
” the Disable type-ahead for all name fields and use the Notes Basic type-ahead”
option

asifmtr
 120 pts.
 

try ticking it > then test again

Gabe9527
 10,615 pts.
 

$ServerMailAddressing=1

add this to the client Notes.ini and this should give you LOCAL Then SERVER in the location document…. try this also

Gabe9527
 10,615 pts.
 

Does opening the Contact and saving it – make them return?

Also try the normal – CTRL – SHIFT – F9

Run a Fixup on the names.nsf

ie close notes… open a command prompt – change to the program directory and then type

nfixup -i names.nsf

then

ncompact -c -i names.nsf

then

nupdall -r names.nsf

This should clear any possible corruptions.

Gabe9527
 10,615 pts.
 

I also have the same issue, recently after upgrading to 8.5.3 my resent contacts has stopped working.

Things I have tried are listed below.

1. Deleted all recent contacts and started again.
2. Ran the below commands “nfixup -i names.nsf
ncompact -c -i names.nsf
nupdall -r names.nsf”

Did this solution work for you Sabarirajan ? @Gabe9527 any ideas other than what you have already provided below ?

Comsci20
 10 pts.
 

The other thing to check is that your trash in the address book is empty…. if someone or thing is in your trash it will not add it to recent contacts again until the trash is cleared.

Gabe9527
 10,615 pts.
 

There is something to check…..

when you go File Preferences > does this look 8.5.x format or does it look like a CONTACT ?

If this is the case recreate the address book ie new one – and copy your stuff across. This will sort it out…. If this is the case Delete the PERNAMES.ntf and get a copy from elsewhere.

Restart client and rename the Notes.nsf to .old and what ever you called the last one names.nsf.

See how this goes.

Gabe9527
 10,615 pts.
 

I have encountered this problem on fresh installation of lotus notes version 8.5.2 fp2. Os platform Windows 7 and XP.

If you copy and paste the recent contacts from old names.nsf to the fresh install copy of names.nsf it will gone sometime. 2nd steps so it will be gone, is to after your copy and paste of RECENT CONTACTS, send and email to new address then go back to your recent contact, everything there is now gone.

So I don’t think running fixup, updall, compact commands is an option on a fresh installation copy of lotus notes.

Any Ideas, its been 3 days now , I am going nuts.

jtajo
 10 pts.
 

I fixed this issue by adding PURGE_RECENT_CONTACTS=1 to the notes.ini

Notes will purchse the recent contacts from all areas, then set it to zero, which means it will not purge again.

Avatar2000
 10 pts.