email attachments and send to onenote

[exciter]

I use ON07 and outlook 2003.

Sending an email to onenote with a button is a cool feature.
I have a question tough:

When the email is sent including the attachments,
where are the attachments kept?
Are they carried into the onenote folder?
Or does onenote refer to outlook folder to open it from there?

If the files are not moved, is there a way to make ON also move the files to
the notebook folder?

 

[Josh Einstein]

Embedded file attachments are actually stored inside of the .one file. I
believe there is an exception when this is on a sharepoint site.

 

[exciter]

Sorry but what do u really mean inside the .one file?

I mean are the files kept deperatley as stand alone word, pdf etc files?

If so, why I dont see them in my notebook?

 

[Josh Einstein]

They are physically stored inside the .one file. They are extracted to the
temp folder as needed.

http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archi...planation-of-how-we-cache-embedded-files.aspx

 

[exciter]

I see.
Then the ON page that I work on becomes the windows explorer in a way.
Right?
So If i add a file, i will not see it in the file system, but it will be
"embeded" in the section (whatever that means).

Yes?

 

[exciter]

Ok I will see in the cached folder.
If my default notebook location is a usb stick,
will they be kept on the usb?
Or will the attached files be present only on the cache file of the computer
itself?

 

[exciter]

Also:
If I open an embeded word file, make changes on the word file,
will they be saved and kept in on correctly?

 

[Josh Einstein]

The files will be stored in the .one file so wherever the .one file is kept
(be it on a SharePoint server, a USB thumb drive, a network share, or the
local file system) that is where the embedded file will be. You should never
need to mess with the cache but OneNote keeps them there on a temporary
basis because otherwise Word, etc would not be able to view or edit a file
that is embedded within another file. So OneNote temporarily extracts them.
And yes, changes that you make to the file should be updated back into the
..one file when you save them, but be careful. There are lots of things that
can go wrong. For example, if you close OneNote while the file is still open
in Word or whatever, the changes might get lost.

However, it's worth mentioning that Outlook does the same thing with these
attachments (keeps them stored in the .pst file and extracts them on-demand
as needed) and has the same limitations.

 

[exciter]

Thanks!