Can I change the name of the "Unfiled Notes" section?

[Roadtrekie]

I used to use the earlier version of OneNote and then upgraded to 2007. My
Unfiled Notes Section is now called "General.one" instead of "Unfiled
Notes.one." Can I rename General to "Unfiled Notes" in Windows Explorer and
then open OneNote and switch the save location to the renamed folder using
Tools/options/save?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I used to use the earlier version of OneNote and then upgraded to
2007. My Unfiled Notes Section is now called "General.one" instead
of "Unfiled Notes.one." Can I rename General to "Unfiled Notes" in
Windows Explorer and then open OneNote and switch the save location
to the renamed folder using Tools/options/save?

Yes, this would work.

You might also just delete the file.
If the storage place is set to "Unfiled" after closing and reopening ON
the file will automatically be re-created.

Rainald

 

[Erik Sojka]

Yes you can. Create/rename the section you want to be the new UFN section,
and then go to Tools | Options | Save | Unfiled Notes and navigate to that
desired section.

In 2007, "Unfiled Notes" is both a feature and the default name of the
section that is used by default for that feature. The section itself can
be given any name as long as the section into which you want to have
unfiled notes dumped is specified using the setting above.

 

[Roadtrekie]

Thanks for your help but when I tried it I also did several other things at
the same time, which of course I don't remember, and it didn't work. I lost
the unfiled notes section contents and, after an hour or two of working on
recovering them, I'm giving up because they weren't that important. In any
case, I now have a section properly titled "Unfiled Notes" and that's where
screen clippings go. One follow-up question: I have a section called
"unfiled notes" that appears in my "Notebooks" pane above the double blue
line, and another by the same name that appears below it, along with "Open
Sections" and "All Notebooks." Is that right, or should I only have the
second one?

 

[Erik Sojka]

That's normal. They should both point to the same place and contain the
same data.

The real UFN Section will be located in whatever Notebook it is placed in.
The 3 Notebooks on the bottom (Unfiled Notes, Open Sections, All Notebooks)
are just helpers in the UI to give you an additional place to go to access
those areas.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

That's normal. They should both point to the same place and
contain the same data.

The real UFN Section will be located in whatever Notebook it is
placed in. The 3 Notebooks on the bottom (Unfiled Notes, Open
Sections, All Notebooks) are just helpers in the UI to give you an
additional place to go to access those areas.

I can not remember to have ever had "THREE" notebooks in the bottom.
I only have "Unfiled" and "All notebooks".
What am I missing?

Rainald

 

[Steve Silverwood]

I used to use the earlier version of OneNote and then upgraded to 2007. My
Unfiled Notes Section is now called "General.one" instead of "Unfiled
Notes.one." Can I rename General to "Unfiled Notes" in Windows Explorer and
then open OneNote and switch the save location to the renamed folder using
Tools/options/save?

Thanks for any help.

What I would have done in this case is to move the old .one file up to
the desktop, for example, then reopened OneNote to let it recreate the
Unfiled Notes. Then open the .one file and move the contents from
there to the new Unfiled Notes.

//Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
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