SharePoint 2007 - Page Orientation Error User Not Found: Could not load profile data from the database. at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfile.Load

SharePoint 2007 pages with custom webparts throws error like "User Not Found: Could not load profile data from the database. at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfile.Load..........."

Symptom: This error does not stop the page from showing. The page loads, however , the orientation of the webparts are lost. One webpart overlaps on the other, sometimes partial , sometimes full.

Reason: The user-profile of the user facing such error, is not getting synchronised with the user information of the SharePoint.

It could be for various reasons:

1. The user has his/her Employee ID changed , may be he has become regular employee from contract and hence has got more than one Employee ID against the same name.

2. The user has changed her name and hence has got two names standing against a single Emp ID.

3. Or sometimes the synchronisation just does not work!

What really works!

Method 1:

To synchronise the user-profile, the easiest way should be to update or modify any of the user information data. This will trigger the records to be pulled for synch because the data would be different from yesterday's after the modification.

To modify the user information we have to navigate to : MySite --> MyProfile. You get to your profile page. You see Edit details . Edit your profile data. Modify the existing data, or fill up something .

Method 2:

If Method1 does not help, we can schedule for crawl.
Very informative Site: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13174_01/alui/integration/sharepointconsole/docs11/admin/SPC%20Crawling%20and%20Indexing.html