Reconfiguring Notebooks after Migration

[Confuzeled]

I recently upgraded from Vista Pro 32 bit to Win 7 Pro 64 bit, and copied my
OneNote files to the new configuration from a backup.

In the process I lost all the Notebooks, although the Sections are still
intact.

I'd like to go back to how things were arranged before the upgrade and
migration.

If I search for *.one I find all the sections, a good number of which have
the same name because I try to have one file structure for my notebooks.

If I select one to open, it asked if I want to open the Section Only or the
whole Notebook. I select the whole Notebook.

When I'm done with the section and try to save it as a Notebook rather than
a section I can't get it to save. OneNote tries to save under the Section
Name, not Notebook name, and I can't figure out how to open all my OneNote
sections as notebooks and savethem as such so I can continue using then=m.

Thanks,

Confuzeled

 

[Bernd]

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I recently upgraded from Vista Pro 32 bit to Win 7 Pro 64 bit, and copied my
OneNote files to the new configuration from a backup.

In the process I lost all the Notebooks, although the Sections are still
intact.

I'd like to go back to how things were arranged before the upgrade and
migration.

If I search for *.one I find all the sections, a good number of which have
the same name because I try to have one file structure for my notebooks.

If I select one to open, it asked if I want to open the Section Only or the
whole Notebook. I select the whole Notebook.

When I'm done with the section and try to save it as a Notebook rather than
a section I can't get it to save. OneNote tries to save under the Section
Name, not Notebook name, and I can't figure out how to open all my OneNote
sections as notebooks and savethem as such so I can continue using then=m.

Thanks,

Confuzeled

Your fault was not to copy the notebooks but only their content(s).

A notebook is defined only by a corresponding envelope = a folder in
windows. Which contains 1 or more sections = *.one files.

The standard structure is

"My Documents" -> OneNote Notebooks -> <OneNote Notebook as a folder> ->
<section #1.one> etc.

You have to recreate that structure by re-creating your
notebook-folders, so nothing is really lost.
If you still have your old data copy just the whole folder tree below
"OneNote notebooks".

If not, create new folders with the old notebooks names (under "Onenote
notebooks"), move/distribute the right sections into them and then open
THESE folders (as notebooks).

Bernd