Important Notebooks Disappeared & Nowhere To Be Found

[Saidas]

I was going through OneNote and to clean up old stuff and I moved the
contents of one Notebook to another and deleted the old one. After doing so,
two other Notebooks (most important ones for business) just disappeared. They
are not in Recycle Bin, nor are they in Documents/OneNote Notebooks.
Searching OneNote produced nothing and I even did a System Restore but again,
nothing. What the heck happened? This is serious as I had a lot of vital
information kept in those notebooks.

 

[Bernd]

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I was going through OneNote and to clean up old stuff and I moved the
contents of one Notebook to another and deleted the old one. After doing so,
two other Notebooks (most important ones for business) just disappeared. They
are not in Recycle Bin, nor are they in Documents/OneNote Notebooks.
Searching OneNote produced nothing and I even did a System Restore but again,
nothing. What the heck happened? This is serious as I had a lot of vital
information kept in those notebooks.

Notebooks do no "just disappear" ...
YOU made them disappear by either accidently deleting or moving around.

So remember:
Notebooks are only file system folders, containing the sections of the
notebook in distinct files, with the file type ".one".

So try to remember your notebook and section names and then search your
complete HD(s) for files "*.one"

Bernd

 

[Saidas]

I just tried this and still nothing. I know things don't just disappear on
their own. I distinctly remember clearing out one Notebook then clicking on
just it and deleting it. The other two got deleted but I don't see how this
is possible as I would have to have selected both of them at the same time as
the one I deleted and that is a very difficult mistake to make inadvertently.

So obviously they got deleted, but where would they be other than where I've
look already?

 

[John Guin [msft]]

Are they archived in File | Open Backup?

 

[Saidas]

They are not shown in File/Open/Backup and I did a search for both using .one
but produced nothing either. Why didn't the System Restore I did work?

 

[Michael]

System Restore does not restore files and data you created. It restores the
registry back to a prior time.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

System Restore does not restore files and data you created. It
restores the registry back to a prior time.

This is only partly correct.and truly mis-leasing therefore :-( :-(

You are right in that user-created data-files will stay untouched when
running System Restore. So ON-notebook files will stay untouched.

But a System Restore does ways mire than just restoring the Registry!!!

In fact it does really restore the *system* and pit a system, all
settings and all program back to the ex-ante state.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

They are not shown in File/Open/Backup and I did a search for both
using .one but produced nothing either.

As Bernd correctly said:
You must have done something wrong.

If the *notebook*-files were not deleted - out of whatever reason - they
should still be sitting in the place shown under "Tools | Options |
Save | Save | Default Notebook Location".

The location of the *backup*-files is shown under "Tools | Options |
Save | Save | Backup Folders".

If you do not find the backups there you must have made a couple of
mistakes, one on top of another :-( :-(
BTW: "Tools | Options | Save | Backup" one can fine-tune how often
backups are to be made automatically (reaching down to minutes).

Why didn't the System Restore I did work?

Naturally so:
A "System Restore" per definition does not touch the *data-files* (such
as notebooks).
It only restores the *system* (OS and programs) and leaves the users'
files untouched.

Under Vista, however, there is an additional possibility:
If a drive has been included in the list for System Recovery, oe can a
previous state of a directory (folder).:
- In the Explorer select "Properties" from the right-mouse context-menu;
- in the tabbed page "Previous Versions" select a date for a restore if
thus directory.

HTH
Rainald