The main thing with synching under OneNote is that one does *not* move
files around and/or store the files on more than one computer.
This is valid for using USB-sticks / flash drives too.
Well ideally there could be a cable between the two computers to
sinc them similar to how I use my Palm but I also have wifi with
security so I may be able to do it that way.
WLAN would be fine. But you could also connect the two computer with an
Ethernet-cable and create a peer-to-peer or an "ad-hoc" network.
As said before: For making use of the fantastic synching feature (which
works automatically) the notebook files should be stored only on *ONE*
computer, not both. On the other computer ON will work with the *cache*,
not with data files.
So decide which of the computers shall be the "main" one (acting like
"server").
The directory where the notebooks are stored have be as "shared".
Then open OneNote on the other computer and close all notebooks
currently loaded.
Thereafter on the second computer you would open the notebooks one by
one from the shared directory of the "main" computer. Creating a
drive-letter for the shared device on the "main" computers will make
things easier.
When and as long as the computers are connected, all of the data will
automatically be synched.
When the computers are disconnected, ON works with the cache and saves
all changes there.
And as soon as the computers are connected again, the changes made on
both computers will be synched.
There is a tab for file sharing in this One Note Program but I've
never used this.
Which "tab" are you referring to?
I do not see what have in mind :-(
Typically I use a flash drive to transfer information. Maybe
there's a way too. I'm unsure which way it will work.
Copying the notebook files to a stick and then copy them from the stick
to the second computer is a method I would not recommend. This will
easily (and almost compulsory) sooner or later lead to data mismatch
because files on the target computer would be overwritten. And all of
the changes made in between would be lost.
However, if you would like to work with a stick/flash drive, there's an
efficient way too.
The main point in so far would be to store the data files (notebook) on
the stick only, not on any of the involved computers. As said above the
the notebooks shall be stored on *ONE* device only, in this case the
stick.
The automatic synching works perfectly well in so far too.
The notebooks would not be opened locally but from the stick on all
computers involved. When the stick is inserted ON will automatically
detect the stick and synch the data from its cache to the stick and vice
versa.
For details pls see David Rasmussen's article "OneNote Notebooks on USB
drives and SD cards"
http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2006/06/29/650705.aspx
HTH
If any questions, pls ask.
Rainald
