I lost my Unfiled Notes in OneNote due to not planning ahead

re: I lost my Unfiled Notes in OneNote due to not planning ahead

Vyacheslav Lanovets — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:11:46 GMT

In the past good sofware on the first run (or during install in the advanced section) would ask were it should place its data. I would then just point on another hardrive and that's all.

One of reasons you call this workflow "unusual" is that wiping hardrive is painful without any support from OS.

re: I lost my Unfiled Notes in OneNote due to not planning ahead

mesan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:56:40 GMT

Three words: Windows Home Server.

Before you blow it away, image it.

It won't take all that long, because WHS uses SIS like Exchange. If you find out you missed something, no worries. WHS only supports 10 PCs, so you just delete your oldest PC from the list of backed-up PCs and you're golden.

re: I lost my Unfiled Notes in OneNote due to not planning ahead

gmmazza — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:11:30 GMT

Thanks for this tip, is helpful to keep all in the same place, I always need to remember to copy this unique folder in my documents.

Do you know how to backup also the personalized tags, templates and options? Is something that gave me a lot of pain to restore every time I wipe out my machine.

re: I lost my Unfiled Notes in OneNote due to not planning ahead

Parrotlover77 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:14:52 GMT

Easier solution: Live Mesh

I Live Mesh my OneNote folder in Documents and never lose anything. Even better, it syncs my work notes with my home notes automatically since they both sync to the same Live Mesh folder.

re: I lost my Unfiled Notes in OneNote due to not planning ahead

JohnGuin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:04:46 GMT

I have a notebook on Mesh - it works, so long as I don't edit it from multiple machines simultaneously. I also have notebooks on different UNC shares, SharePoint and even flash devices just to help get coverage on all the locations notebooks can go.

For gmmazza, Options would be a set of the registry keys under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\OneNote. Templates are stored here : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\ONENOTE\12 (the "1033" may be different if you have a non-English version of Office installed). Let me find out about the best way to move tags around.

re: I lost my Unfiled Notes in OneNote due to not planning ahead

gustavo minarelli — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:22:27 GMT

nice, but... wouldn't it be better if you si.ply change thee locatioon of your my doocuments?

re: I lost my Unfiled Notes in OneNote due to not planning ahead

JohnGuin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:51:22 GMT

that's a good (very good!) suggestion. Microsoft has a system in which I can enroll that will move "My Documents" to a server and will roam my documents to whatever machine I happen to be using. this is a separate configuration (test case) for us and I am not enrolled in it. We have other testers that are.

I could move the My Documents folder to a different drive, though. I probably will stick with modifying the OneNote setting by itself, though, to ensure we don't hit any bugs with that setting.

re: I lost my Unfiled Notes in OneNote due to not planning ahead

gmmazza — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:02:11 GMT

Thank you John, Hope you find that tag backup trick :)

re: I lost my Unfiled Notes in OneNote due to not planning ahead

seanvaleniine33@gmail.com — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:10:41 GMT

I lost my unfiled notes due to not planning ahead.