Is anyone using One Note with a wireless network?

[Dr Hal]

I still can't figure out a way to save the order of my folders after I
alphabetize them. I have Windows XP, I'm using a Fujitsu Tablet PC, and all
of my information is saved onto a wireless network. What can I do to save
everything the way I want?

Please reply

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP Outlook/OneNote]

I still can't figure out a way to save the order of my folders after I
alphabetize them. I have Windows XP, I'm using a Fujitsu Tablet PC,
and all of my information is saved onto a wireless network. What can
I do to save everything the way I want?

Please reply

What's happening? You alphabetize them and the next time you open
OneNote they are in the previous (unalphabetized) order again?

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Mahalo!

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

The wireless network shouldn't be a contributing factor to this issue.

Are you referring to the Section or Page order? Are you sorting in OneNote
or in Explorer? Can you provide more detail on what you're looking to do?

 

[dr hal]

Ben,

I have a notebook computer that I use to keep all of my patient records.
These records are in "MY NOTEBOOK" in a "FOLDER" called "Patients". All of
these records are stored on a wireless network. I am able to access the
folder "PATIENTS", but they never stay in alphabetical order. I talked with
a guy from Fujitsu for about 10 hours one week and he couldn't figure out why
they don't save in the order I want them to. He thinks it has something to
do with my network. I hope that helps you help me.

thanks!

 

[dr hal]

Erik,

Thanks for replying. I have spent about 10 hours on the phone with a
Fujitsu tech trying to figure this out. He believes that it has something to
do with my network, but he isn't sure. What I am trying to do is save my
patient records in individual folders, within a parent folder called
Patients, in My Notebook. So, as you look at it in One Note it goes:
My Notebook
Patients
Alphabetical order of patients last names.

I have re-alphabetized them, and as soon as I exit out of One Note or turn
off the computer they get scrambled again. I can look in "my computer" and
see that the names are alphabetized on the network storage device, however
something happens when I look at them in One Note. Would working with
"explorer" possibly allow me to keep the saved order?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

There's a great teaching concept in networking called the OSI model; I
shant bore you with the details, but one of the things to be learned from
it is that an application like OneNote should neither know nor care about
the underlying details of the network.

If you previously browsed the Internet using a 56k modem, then later
upgraded to broadband, you don't have to completely replace and reinstall
all of your applications, right? IE doesn't know or care about how
you're connected to the Internet, just that a connection exists. OneNote
works the same way.

Unfortunately, while you can do a lot with the OneNote section files in
Explorer, changing the order is not one of them. You've probably noticed
that the section files have the same name as the sections. Viewing these
files in Explorer while sorting by name will naturally alphabetize them,
but this does not carry over into OneNote.

Let's try a few things:
1) Can you try to alphabetize your sections again, but first locate a
hidden file called "OneNote Table Of Contents.onetoc" in your Patients
folder (in Explorer). Write down the file's date and time before
changing the order of the pages, and then after closing OneNote. You
should see the file's timestamp change.
2) Try to temporarily copy the remote "My Notebook" folder to a folder on
the local laptop. Can you then rearrange the sections in OneNote and
have their order retained?
3) You could also permanently keep the OneNote files on your laptop, and
use Window's Offline Files feature to copy them to the network for backup
purposes.

 

[dr hal]

Yes. That's exactly what happens. I have done it 100 times and it turns
into a mixed up mess. The funny thing is that it mixes it up in different
orders each time.
It doesn't make any sense at all.

Thanks.

-Hal