After TR2 didn't open my existing notes

[P Cause]

I installed TR2 and launched OneNote. Much to my surprise my existing
notebooks were not opened. The new version assumed that they were located in
the default location and mine weren't. Looks like the upgrade didn't pick up
the settings from the old install. Once I did an open and selected the
directory where my notebooks were stored, all appears well. Also chnegd the
default location to be there as well.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

That shouldn't have happened...
Where did you have your notebooks? What was the default location?

Patrick Schmid

 

[P Cause]

Mine were in c:\stuff\notes

That shouldn't have happened...
Where did you have your notebooks? What was the default location?

Patrick Schmid

 

[Patrick Schmid]

You should go on connect.microsoft.com. Sign up for the OneNote
connection there and submit feedback. In your feedback, describe the
problem, where you had your files and what happened. Also, attach all
the files named SetupExe(somethinginhere).log that you can find in
Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\temp.
This will help MS figure out why this happened.

Thanks,

Patrick Schmid

 

[P Cause]

Went there but unfortunately, the "Apply" link isn't active.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Did you sign up the OneNote connection? I seem to remember that without
signing up, you can't submit anything.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Daniel Escapa [MS]]

P Cause -

What are the _exact_ steps you followed for upgrading?

Did you do anything with the registry after installing B2TR?

Has anyone else seen this?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Has anyone else seen this?

Not so on my side.
Worked really fine.
I really wondered how neat my settings were carried over.

Rainald

 

[Patrick Schmid]

I really wondered how neat my settings were carried over.
When you installed SP1 or SP2 for Office 2003, did you wonder the same?

B2TR was the test run for patching Office with Service Packs.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Rainald Taesler]

When you installed SP1 or SP2 for Office 2003, did you wonder the
same?

Can't remember any more :-(

B2TR was the test run for patching Office with Service Packs.

Interesting.

As far as ON is concerned, I think that some SP solution for some of
the remaining major problems will be necessary.

Rainald

 

[Donovan Lange [Microsoft]]

Hi P,

OneNote 2007 will not try to split apart your notebook structure if your
legacy notes were not in the default location My Docs\My Notebook\. However,
we should have opened c:\stuff\notes directory as a notebook (along with the
guide notebook) and prompted you after boot to upgrade all of the files
within this notebook.

As Patrick suggested, you should definitely log a bug on the Connect site.
In addition, do be sure to attach the OneNote_MigrationLog.txt file from your
temp directory.

Donovan

 

[Donovan Lange [Microsoft]]

Also, just to confirm -- was this your first instance using OneNote 2007, or
had you previously been running B1 or B2?

Donovan

 

[Patrick Schmid]

He must have had B2. Otherwise he would have not been able to install
the B2TR patch.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Donovan Lange [Microsoft]]

Right you are. However, to nit-pick -- it may be that he both installed B2
and then immediately patched B2TR before ever running OneNote 2007 for the
very first time. Whereupon we'd have run our legacy migration logic. (Note
that the key distinction that I'm trying to make is between the ON 2003 ->
2007 and the B2 -> B2TR content upgrade. As we made a bunch of changes to
the design of the legacy migration post Beta 2, I want to make sure that
we're talking about the latter.)



Donovan

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Gotcha

Patrick Schmid

 

[P Cause]

I applied TR2 and opened OneNote 2007 from the Start menu. Didn't tweak
registry or do anything else at all. I had used OL 2007 and some other apps
after the TR2007 install before I used OneNote.

 

[P Cause]

I upgraded to the OneNote 2007 beta as soon as it was available and had been
using it since. I actually had been using it within an hour prior to my
upgrade to TR2