Can't find my notebooks

[FIB]

I’m running ON 2007 Beta 2. An error occurred and ON shut down and I sent an
error report. I got a message to the effect that the error involved a lot of
files and may take a long time to send. I OK’d the send. Several
times—before the error reporting completed—ON shut down and automatically
reopened. When this occurred I got another error message followed by
another cycle of shut down and reopening. After several rounds this cycle
stopped leaving me with a dialog box with a status bar I’m running ON 2007
Beta 2. An error occurred and ON shut down and I sent an error report. I
got a message to the effect that the error involved a lot of files and may
take a long time to send. I OK’d the send. Several times—before the error
reporting completed—ON shut down and automatically reopened. When this
occurred I got another error message followed by another cycle of shut down
and reopening. After several rounds this cycle stopped leaving me with a
dialog box with a status bar on sending the error report. When this dialog
box closed I restarted ON and got a message that there were significant
issues and it offered several options for correcting the problem. I chose
the first—clearing the cache—after which the option box closed. Once again I
restarted ON which apparently opened normally but none of my notebooks were
there. When using the File/Open Notebook approach it defaulted to a
Templates folder where there was no sign of my notebooks. I navigated to
application data/onenote/12.0 and still didn’t find an openable notebook.
There are folders in the /12.0 /Backup folder that correspond to my notebook
names that contain ON files and *.one_onefiles folders.

How do I get my notebooks open now?

Thanks!

 

[Patrick Schmid]

You should look in My Documents\OneNote Notebooks. You were looking in
Application Data which is the location of the cache, but not the actual
..one files.
To find the location of all your notebooks (if not in My Documents),
search your harddrive for .one files. The ones in the backup folder are
not the ones you are looking for btw.

Patrick Schmid

 

[FIB]

Bingo! Thanks Patrick.

You should look in My Documents\OneNote Notebooks. You were looking in
Application Data which is the location of the cache, but not the actual
..one files.
To find the location of all your notebooks (if not in My Documents),
search your harddrive for .one files. The ones in the backup folder are
not the ones you are looking for btw.

Patrick Schmid