Of course not eveyone is happy with that. Seeing the answers in the forums most of them reflect directly to the technique as described above. So what do I do when a have multiple notebooks I want to move / copy? You will encounter the most issues when opening 2010/2013 versions in OneNote 2007. If you have multiple versions of OneNote you might know that not all versions are compatible. Nope, you still have to take into consideration the fact that various versions are out there. Open this file and your OneNotebook will be opened on the new location. You will have to look for a file that is something called: You actually have to go one level deeper to open the file you need. What to open? Well if you go to the folder you will see that the ‘Open’ button still stays greyed out. Open OneNote and choose File – Open and choose the default location for your OneNotebooks. Paste your copied folder back into this folder on your other pc. On the new pc, laptop or other device make sure that same folder, as mentioned earlier, is present.
This might be our good old thumbdrive, a shared location or someplace else. If you want just one notebook to be copied then copy the complete folder and put it somewhere accessible to your other pc. Now from that directory look at the contents and you will see that every folder is called exactly the same as your notebooks in OneNote. As one might expect this is the place where OneNote stores all your newly created notebooks by default. When Microsoft OneNote is installed on your device it will create a folder called “OneNote Notebooks”.
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If lost all your work is lost.Ĭopying your notebooks from one pc to another The downside to using USB drive will be that you must always have the usb drive around. You know by now that you don’t have to save your work in OneNote that will be done automatically. Every now and again you will see the synchronization icon appear on the notebook. There is an important thing you need to know about this technique because it will be syncing your changes. You can swap it with any pc, laptop or tablet you want. Now you notebook will be saved on the USB device. Create a new notebook and when asked where to save it choose Computer and browse to your Thumb drive in the directory and click create. How many of those do you still have lying around? If you are still very attached to these thumb drives you can still create your notebooks on them. Everything you wanted to save you would put on a thumb drive. In the early days of OneNote the USB thumb drive was hot. How do you move your notebooks from your old PC to your new device? Now what to do if you get/buy a new computer, laptop or tablet. Not everybody uses OneDrive and many users also like the ability to store their notebook locally. But I know where the questions come from. Every notebook accessible on every device.
It will come as no surprise that most of my notebooks are centralized in OneDrive. That kind of surprises me because I’d like to access my notebooks everywhere and on any device. Lately I have seen a lot of questions in different Forums about copying or moving your OneNote Books.