deleting a Notebook

[oistrakhan]

I know that the only way to delete an entire notebook is in Windows Explorer
rather than in OneNote itself. But - what do you do if there is a Notebook
that you DON'T want in OneNote but it doesn't show up anywhere in Windows
Explorer so you can't delete it?! I have even set up Explorer to show hidden
files, in case it had become hidden, but it still isn't showing up. Can
somebody help me?

 

[Bob Perry]

I'm sure there is a more elegant method but, I just searched all drives for
*.one.

This is a "brute force" approach but it worked for me.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I know that the only way to delete an entire notebook is in Windows
Explorer rather than in OneNote itself. But - what do you do if
there is a Notebook that you DON'T want in OneNote but it doesn't
show up anywhere in Windows Explorer so you can't delete it?!

This does not happen. You just have to look at the right place ;-)

I have
even set up Explorer to show hidden files, in case it had become
hidden, but it still isn't showing up.

How do you know that the file still exists?

Can somebody help me?

Help yourself <g> : Just *search* for *.ONE files.
Most probably you just had put the file to a wrong place.

Rainald
P.S. When the file is still open, one can check for the physical
location of a notebook by moving the mouse-cursor over the notebook's
bar in the Navigation Pane; the yellow speed-tip (balloon-tip) shows the
full path. One can also right-click on the bar and select "Properties"
from the context menu.

Rainald

 

[oistrakhan]

Thanks to you both. In answer to Bob, it is Sections that have the suffix
*.one - Notebooks are equivalent to Folders. I realised, though, that the
problem I was really having was that the same Notebook was appearing TWICE,
in two different places, in the Navigation Pane - for some odd reason. If I
deleted it in Explorer - everything went!
I solved it by moving all the sections (temporarily) somewhere else in
Windows Explorer. I then deleted the Notebook (in Explorer); re-created it
(in OneNote); then (in Explorer) I moved the sections into it. Bingo!
In the middle of me trying to solve the problem, OneNote created a sort of
Notebook called 'Open Sections' - I've never seen that before - but now it
has changed its mind and that has gone.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Thanks for your success report!

It seems that you must have done something really odd to have the same
notebook appear twice.

"Open Sections" is not a *notebook*. This entry always appears when a
section is opened which is not stored in the hierarchy of a notebook.
And it appears if one opens a section directly.

As now everything seems to be OK, I recommend to clear the cache.
This can be done from "Tools | Options | Save" with the button "Optimize
all files".

Rainald

 

[oistrakhan]

Just done exactly what you suggest. Thanks. (We'll never know why a Notebook
decided to clone itself - in the Navigation Pane but NOT in Windows Explorer).

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Just done exactly what you suggest. Thanks.

OK, fine!

(We'll never know why a

Notebook decided to clone itself - in the Navigation Pane but NOT in
Windows Explorer).

Perhaps you had just opened it *twice* without noticing what you did.

Rainald