Onenote has just deleted 6 months of my work. Help!

[aleko]

Hello al

Sorry to be a bother, but I am in a bit of a panic. Today I closed (no
deleted, just closed) a notebook on my laptop which had been open for
months, thinking that changes are automatically saved (surely one o
the selling points of the program). When I went to reopen it from M
Documents there was no trace of it at all, it is as if it had neve
existed (the notebook was about 2GB big!) All I have left is a 6 mont
old version which had a different file name

Have I lost the notebook forever? Every other Office program warns yo
that you haven't saved changes ad nauseum. What has happened here? An
is there anything I can do about it

Cheers in advance

 

[Michael B]

Check your backup....it gets saved daily (default). Check
Tools>>Options>>Save. You'll see where the backup folder is located.

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

Sorry to be a bother, but I am in a bit of a panic. Today I closed (not
deleted, just closed) a notebook on my laptop which had been open for 6
months, thinking that changes are automatically saved (surely one of
the selling points of the program). When I went to reopen it from My
Documents there was no trace of it at all, it is as if it had never
existed (the notebook was about 2GB big!) All I have left is a 6 month
old version which had a different file name.

If you rename the notebook folder in the filesystem OneNote will not
pick up the namechange, so it's recommended to avoid renaming notebooks
after they're created.

As far as getting back your notes, you can open a backup. You can also
look in the bottom left corner of the notebook bar - it should have a
"misplaced sections" icon. If you click that, it will have copies of all
your sections that had unsynced notes when you closed the notebook.

Ilya