Inserting Files in OneNote as a Picture - Space occupied-

[Andre Sousa]

Hi,

I have noticed that when I insert an office file as a picture in one note,
the file itself is also copied to my one note folder, which is an issue in
terms of disk space management.

I have deleted those files (ppt, Xls, doc, ...) and it does not seem to
affect the picture which I imported and onto which I can take notes.

Is this safe to delete those files, why are they there in the first place?
Is there an option when importing files as pictures not to have the original
file also copied into one note?

Regards
AS

 

[Erik Sojka]

It is safe to delete the files; Some people use a batch file or WMI script
to delete all extra files in their "My Notebook" folder periodically.

You can get the same results and support for all file types (i.e. not just
the three main Office file types) by using this third party utility that does
the same type of "printing" into a OneNote page, but does not copy the files
after insertion.

http://www.analogreality.com/onenotepowertoys/OneNoteImageWriter.htm