Copying OneNote to another computer, folder structure not maintained

[jon]

Copied entire ON contents (OneNote Notebooks) from My Documents on
USB, pasted in My Documents onto a new laptop.

Everything is there, however, the folder structure is not maintained.
Notebooks have become Section Groups. I now have one main notebook
with a whole bunch of section groups, instead of multiple notebooks
with their respective contents.

This seems like it should have been a simple copy and paste and that
OneNote should have maintained folder structure. However, it did not.

Why are my Notebooks now Section groups?

Is there any way (quick) around this?

 

[John Guin [msft]]

It sounds like you opened the parent folder (OneNote notebooks) as a
notebook.

Here's something to try:
1. back up any changes you have made
2. close the notebook(s) you have open
3. Go to the location where you copied the folders on the new machine. This
is probably My Documents\OneNote Notebooks
4. Make sure you open the "OneNote Notebooks" folder.
5. In it should be a set of folders you copied that are the names of the
notebooks from the old computer. Right click each one and select "Open as a
notebook in OneNote"

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Jon,
anything new?

Rainald