"User friendly" explanation of how we cache embedded files

re: "User friendly" explanation of how we cache embedded files

Sam Morris — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:42:17 GMT

Here is the short version of who/what/why: I am a teacher/techie at a 1:1 school in Cary, NC. We have 700+ students with Tablet PCs and ON is the tool for us. Last year we were in the habit of converting teacher handouts to ON with Send to ON, unfortunately file size created some server issues for us. This year we have moved to embedding PDFs into ON pages. Students then edit the handouts using Bluebeam Revu. As we are dealing with kids from 12-18 y.o., it has been hard to trace, but students have indicated that annotations to the PDF sometimes "disappear." I am speculating that either the editor or ON closes improperly (end task or system shutdown), although one student reported a hibernation may have also caused loss of data. Are these the only logical causes for ON not to keep track of the changes in embedded files? Thanks for your help. I enjoy your blog and ON even more. It is an incredible app.

re: "User friendly" explanation of how we cache embedded files

Josh Einstein — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:55:02 GMT

If I may offer a suggestion as to why access denied seems to be happening on Vista for no apparent reason... I've noticed that the Vista indexer, when indexing files, tends to lock files. You can verify this using Sysinternals Process Explorer and just search for handles that have the OneNote cache in its path and you'll see all processes that have an open handle to this folder.

How about an explanation of how you sync content?

Evan Easton — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:48:53 GMT

Dan,

Thanks for sharing.

Any chance one of your people has a detailed description of the concepts behind syncing? I've done some deep digging, if you will, into the binary files and think I have a handle on the basics, but it'd be cool to see it described by the ON team.

Evan

re: "User friendly" explanation of how we cache embedded files

christian — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:07:28 GMT

Where do you find the cash files exactly