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alferic
February 9th, 2004, 04:07 AM
hello guys!

ive encountered an error message everytime i close my ms excel2k program..it says:
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An application error has occured in the program excel.exe
Crash information will be saved to the file Notes.rip in C:\notes\data

Quincy Non-fatal error: the semaphore timeout period has expired
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i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the ms excel and my lutos notes ..but still, it hasnt change. do my lutos notes and ms excel are in conflict?..please help!

Luke92881
February 9th, 2004, 12:18 PM
There are 2 quick things to try. You can search for the Excel.xlb file and delte it or you can try finding the lotus notes file plugin. It might be in c:\program files\microsoft Office\(Maybe xlstart)

alferic
February 9th, 2004, 10:42 PM
hi luke!

i have tried deleting the excel.xlb file but no luck of resolving the error. its still there.

by the way...what's the name of the lutos notes plug in?
do i have to delete the file also?

Luke92881
February 10th, 2004, 08:36 AM
I am not sure what the plugin name would be. I only have a PDF plugin on mine. However I think it is located in the directory I gave you.

I would just move the file instead of deleting it. I do suspect that the plugin is the problem though.

dougj
February 15th, 2004, 11:44 AM
The problem is *probably* not related to Notes. The Notes RIP file is created by the QNC debugger that ships with Lotus Notes. It's not the cause of the error, its just the utility that's trapping the error and presenting it on the screen. If QNC (aka Qincy) wasn't running, then you'd get a Windows OS based error message instead.

Two things I've seen that can cause the semaphore timeout problem: very long path-and-filenames, and opening/closing files on a netwrok drive, usually when its referenced by URL rather than a mapped drive letter.