Looking to Resolve Issue Like 'You are not authorized to open this file'

Amongst many email platforms, you are using Lotus Notes, and all of a sudden, you met with this faulty message:



One thing is understandable that administrator using Lotus Notes has not given authority to access Notes .nsf files. If you try to open Lotus Notes database, you cannot employ even activities like editing, opening, modifications, editing, designing etc. This issue required to be handled diligently.


ACL or Access Control List Feature: In Lotus Notes, one unique feature exist ACL or Access Control List, which keeps all the local securities as well as encryptions in NSF database files. Lotus Notes database is accumulation of users' contacts, journals, to do list, contacts, calendars etc. For the sake of high security purpose and to avoid unauthorized usage, this feature is used by NSF administrator. If anyone else makes an attempt to open NSF database, he/she will experience such faulty message: 'You are not authorized to perform that operation'

You are not authorized to open this file

Deal with Error like 'You are not authorized to open this file': Such error message is required to be dealt with when you are in need of NSF database. Securase software is created for such matters only. It helps you to remove local security and help in accessing and using NSF database. The features are quite self interactive which will further help in accessing data and employing various tasks.

Point to be noted that – Securase Does Not Do

Software does not decrypt encrypted Lotus Notes NSF files. It just removes local Lotus Notes security. Securase only removes NSF security.It is not an NSF password recovery tool. You cannot use Securase to remove password from password protected NSF database.