One of the user reported that he can’t open his mail database, and when I tried to open his mail database, I have this error message
“Can’t open view”
and displayed a blank database
Tried to run the following tasks:
- Fixup
- Updall
- Compact
- Convert
- Replace design
- Search the internet
Without any luck. ![:)]()

Then I try to open the database in lotus designer, and luckily it can open.
Click the list of view, and there is no view, just empty. Now, I see the problem.
So what I do next,
- Create one empty view, and close.
- Open the database, can’t open, still have “can’t find view” error message.
- Replace design, now it working
- Open the database, now it working.
It seem somehow all the views in the database got corrupted, and without a view, you can’t open lotus notes database.