Extracting data from OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache

[SiD (gmail account)]

Hi there,

I need to extract all the data from that cache manually: OneNote
(2007) synched with an empty folder on the server and marked all the
data in the cache as deleted, so every notebook appears empty.

However, the data are still in the cache file (it's size is about 400
MB and Hex Workshop shows me a lot of things).

The backup folder contains only the recently modified sections...

Thanks in advance!

 

[John Guin [msft]]

I just had the same problem.

I went to my machine that had all the notebooks I wanted still in the cache.
I right clicked each and selected "Save As" and saved them each as a .onepkg
file.

Now I have a backup of each notebook as it existed when the server died. As
a test, I'm "living in the cache" until the server comes back up. If the
server HD doesn't get wiped, when it is restored I should be able to sync
again. If the hard drive comes back wiped (which I expect), then I'll repeat
the process to save the changes I made since the server went down, close the
notebooks from the cache, and open the PKG files as new notebooks.

Alternately, I could have moved the notebooks from the cache to a temporary
server, or to my local drive while the server was gone. I arbitrarily chose
the more complicated solution to use as an ad hoc test case. Give me a
couple of weeks to get my computer back and I'll blog the results to my url
below.

 

[SiD (gmail account)]

Unfortunatly I have not another PC with a copy of the cache .

 

[YouBetcha]

John, I think he means that the notebooks were deleted, OneNote is actually
showing deleted notebooks (they are blank when you open OneNote, so there is
nothing to save), but OneNote just hasn't "optimized" its cache yet so the
cache is still sizeable and probably still have the data in it.

 

[SiD (gmail account)]

John, I think he means that the notebooks were deleted, OneNote is actually
showing deleted notebooks (they are blank when you open OneNote, so there is
nothing to save), but OneNote just hasn't "optimized" its cache yet so the
cache is still sizeable and probably still have the data in it.

Yeah, YouBetcha, that's exactly what I meant

 

[Sid]

Yeah, YouBetcha, that's exactly what I meant

Resolved I will probably write an article about it. Pretty complex
way. Helped by Benoit.