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I have been keeping copious notes in OneNote2007. Recently, I've had two instances of data loss. The most recent involved keeping the main OneNote files on a NAS server, which I had been primarily accessing from a single desktop. I changed over to a newer desktop, and when I open my file from there, it is missing roughly 1 week of the latest OneNote data.
The funny thing, the current data still shows when I open the same file on the old computer.
I'm wondering:
- How can I get all my data to show on the new computer?
- How reliable is Onenote2007 if it so easily loses data like this? Wherever I record my notes, it pretty much needs to be rock-solidly reliable.
EDIT - More info: When I try a manual sync, it says "This notebook is not connected. Changes are not being synchronized.". When I go to Tools-Options-Save-Paths, I changed backup and default notebook location to the network share. It won't let me change the unfiled notes section, and the cache is still local.
alchemical
Posted 2009-11-02T06:27:34.870
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I tend to shut down the computers at night...but then turn them on again in the morning. I wonder if I disconnect things before it synchronizes, if it may "forget" to synchronize when the connection is re-established. Any idea how to force a sync? – alchemical – 2009-11-02T16:49:21.967
If you right click on the notebook name from within OneNote, there should be a menu item to synchronize the notebook. I know this is true on OneNote 2010, and I seem to remember it from 2007 too. – Jim Deville – 2009-11-02T20:30:01.787
Thanks, I found it but ran into issues--see edits to question. – alchemical – 2009-11-05T06:59:46.107
1OK--I zeroed in on File-Sync and reset the file location (didn't change it, just reset to the same value), and finally got it to sync! – alchemical – 2009-11-05T07:59:30.590