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Information on OneNote Misplaced Sections

13 Jun 2007 4:56 PM
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I saw someone ask about Misplaced Sections on the OneNote newsgroup so I thought I would blog about this.

  1. Misplaced Sections are created whenever OneNote could not sync some changes from the local cache to the master copy of the file. This might happen if you make some changes offline, then delete the master .one file and then come online; OneNote will move that section to the misplaced sections. You might also see this if you make changes to some notebook and while offline you try and close the notebook. OneNote will prompt you if you are sure you want to do this and if you choose to do so OneNote will create a Misplaced Sections virtual notebook and store the changed sections in there.
    The main point here is that OneNote will not delete changes to your content, we want to be very conservative with your content and lose it.
  2. Misplaced sections are only in the cache. These misplaced sections are not in the file system, you can only get to them from the cache and by running OneNote.
  3. They work like other sections so you can move them to other locations or deleted them; but they are read-only while they are in the Misplaced Sections notebook. If you have lots of misplaced sections and you want to quickly clear them out you can navigate to one of the sections and then choose File-->Delete all Misplaced Sections.
  4. If you reopen the notebook in question OneNote will attempt to patch up problems and move the misplaced sections out of that virtual notebook and move them to the master copy of the file. It works magically in certain cases, I was really impressed when I saw this working well.

If you have more questions please let me know and I will add to this.  Ideally you should never see misplaced sections : )

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  • matias
    18 Jun 2007 10:19 PM

    Hi Daniel.

    I want to know about a problem I have when I make a link to the page or the section, and open from another aplication that doesn't interpet the link as a title and a link (something that all the office apps do well).

    Almost every time It opens a dialog box asking if you want to open the section or the book. And open it as a offline copy, and never resync it back.

    Sometimes it works. Per example I want to make a link to a page in a desktop icon. and this is the way it behaves.

    Thank you very much for so many and useful information in onenote, the group pages in the last post changed my way of working *again*.

  • 19 Jun 2007 10:21 PM

    matias - I am not sure I understand your problem.  The hyperlink problem might be because we have our own protocol handler which is onenote:// and some applications might not understand that as well as http:// or ftp://.  What application were you trying?

    Otherwise I don't understand the rest of your question.  If you can give me more detail that would be great.

  • Matias
    20 Jun 2007 1:48 AM

    Hi Daniel, thank you very much for your response.

    I was triyng to do what descrives David Rasmussen  here <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2006/06/13/629466.aspx">Keyboard shortcuts for fast access to favorite OneNote pages</a>.

    Look for the comments. the third comment is experiencin the same problem as me.

    Also I'm testing mindmanager 7.

    The problem is : when you access the link, Onenote open a window asking if you want to open the section or the notebook. No matter what you say, it is opened in a new box next to the unfilled notes and with the sync icon.

    Hopes this helps. if not i will try to to an screen capture.

    Thanks again.

  • 20 Jun 2007 9:39 PM

    The prompt you are seeing is because you are opening a section where OneNote doesn't think you have the notebook open.  I would recommend that you open the section as one of your notebooks if possible.  Otherwise there might be a bug and it is something we can look into in the future.  I would log a bug on our Connect site: http://connect.microsoft.com/onenote

    Hope this helps

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