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Backing up Onenote error

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rocketfrog03

Flightless Bird
Hi all,

I am new to this community and have a question. I created a notebook for school in Onenote 2007 earlier this year, and recently decided to upgrade my Windows OS from Vista to 7. In order to backup all my school notes, I copied all the files from the folder "Onenote notebooks" which was under my "documents" folder, then pasted those files to my external.

Then I reformatted my computer, and performed clean install of windows 7, and reinstalled office 07. Then I copied and pasted those onenote files from my external back to the appropriate location under my "documents."

When I started up onenote, the only notebooks available were the standard default ones when you start the program for the first time. I then tried to manually open my school notes file with onenote, and got this message: "Waiting to sync this section Another onenote program created it but has not yet uploaded the content." From doing some research on this forum, it seems that I was supposed to make my notes available to multiple users before I tried to back them up. Does anyone know how I can open my school notes? Any help is greatly appreciated.

p.s. I no longer have access to the system the notes were originally created on (it was reformatted).
 
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Bernd

Flightless Bird
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> Hi all,
>
> I am new to this community and have a question. I created a notebook
> for school in Onenote 2007 earlier this year, and recently decided to
> upgrade my Windows OS from Vista to 7. In order to backup all my school
> notes, I copied all the files from the folder "Onenote notebooks" which
> was under my "documents" folder, then pasted those files to my
> external.
>


A OneNote notebook is a FOLDER (with the name of the notebook) under the
folder "Onenote Notebooks".
This folder is the container of the notebook's sections. One section is
one *.one file.

So the question is:
What did you copy ?
The notebook folder with the sections or only the sections ?

> Then I reformatted my computer, and performed clean install of windows
> 7, and reinstalled office 07. Then I copied and pasted those onenote
> files from my external back to the appropriate location under my
> "documents."
>
> When I started up onenote, the only notebooks available were the
> standard default ones when you start the program for the first time. I
> then tried to manually open my school notes file with onenote, and got
> this message: "Waiting to sync this section Another onenote program
> created it but has not yet uploaded the content."


This sounds like not having closed the notebook (NOT only Onenote!)
before the new installation. Only a guess ...


Bernd
 
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rocketfrog03

Flightless Bird
I copied the entire folder which contained all the notebooks and their sections (.one) files.
 
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Petar Miljkovic

Flightless Bird
You can try opening only sections (*.one files) and see what happens. Or, you
can create a new notebook, close ON, then manually copy *.one files to the
newly created notebook (folder).

"undisclosed" wrote:

>
> I copied the entire folder which contained all the notebooks and their
> sections (.one) files.
>
>
> --
> rocketfrog03
> .
>
 
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Bernd

Flightless Bird
-------- Original-Nachricht --------

> You can try opening only sections (*.one files) and see what happens. Or, you
> can create a new notebook, close ON, then manually copy *.one files to the
> newly created notebook (folder).
>


Maybe that works because you loose the hidden *.onetoc2 files, which
could be the source of trouble.

Bernd
 
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rocketfrog03

Flightless Bird
Thanks for the suggestions guys, but it still didn't work. There must be some way to open these .one files. Just because I didn't set it for multiple computers I don't see why I can't open it.
 
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Bernd

Flightless Bird
-------- Original-Nachricht --------

> Thanks for the suggestions guys, but it still didn't work. There must
> be some way to open these .one files. Just because I didn't set it for
> multiple computers I don't see why I can't open it.
>
>

Last idea:
Try Method 2 of

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825779

Bernd
 
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