Correcting ON 2007 File Structure

[PT]

Somehow, somewhere, I dislocated the structure of my ON 2007 files. The
result is that ON has converted previous ON notebooks and sections into
section groups, and sections. Thus I now have one giant notebook in the
created folder MyDocs | OneNote Notebooks. It contains section groups which
previously were separate ON files.

What should the main folder for ON notebooks be named. And how can I
rearrange things to get back to the original group of separate notebooks

 

[David Olsen]

Unfiled Notes is the default notebook. Apart from that you can add your own
notebooks as required.

 

[John Guin [msft]]

It sounds like you right clicked the "OneNote Notebooks" folder in My Docs
and selected to open it as a notebook. OneNote would treat that folder as
the "parent" and all subfolders as section groups.

Here's what I would do.
1. Ensure my backups are up to date.
2. In OneNote, right click and close all open notebooks.
3. Use Explorer to open the OneNote notebooks folder.
4. Navigate to the folders that hold the individual notebooks I want open,
right click them and select to "Open as OneNote Notebook."

Each notebook is named the name of the folder that holds it by default. You
can override what the OneNote navigation bar shows as the name by right
clicking the notebook in OneNote and selecting "Rename." This will not
change the name of the folder on the hard drive - it only changes what the UI
shows. I do this frequently for notebooks that have long names to shorten
them so I can see more notebooks at once.

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Hope this helps,
John Guin
OneNote Test Team
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin

Unfiled Notes is the default notebook. Apart from that you can add your own
notebooks as required.

 

[PT]

That fixed it. Thanks for the help and the info.

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PT

It sounds like you right clicked the "OneNote Notebooks" folder in My Docs
and selected to open it as a notebook. OneNote would treat that folder as
the "parent" and all subfolders as section groups.

Here's what I would do.
1. Ensure my backups are up to date.
2. In OneNote, right click and close all open notebooks.
3. Use Explorer to open the OneNote notebooks folder.
4. Navigate to the folders that hold the individual notebooks I want open,
right click them and select to "Open as OneNote Notebook."

Each notebook is named the name of the folder that holds it by default.
You
can override what the OneNote navigation bar shows as the name by right
clicking the notebook in OneNote and selecting "Rename." This will not
change the name of the folder on the hard drive - it only changes what the
UI
shows. I do this frequently for notebooks that have long names to shorten
them so I can see more notebooks at once.