Backing up Onenote error

[undisclosed]

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 schoo
notes, I copied all the files from the folder "Onenote notebooks" whic
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 anyon
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 originall
created on (it was reformatted)

 

[Bernd]

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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

 

[undisclosed]

I copied the entire folder which contained all the notebooks and thei
sections (.one) files

 

[Petar Miljkovic]

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).

 

[Bernd]

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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

 

[undisclosed]

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

 

[Bernd]

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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