ON 07 B2TR - Icon links fixed!

[Grant Robertson]

Patrick, Thanks for doing even deeper experiments than I was able to do
in the time I have available. I'm glad I was wrong but I'm not sorry I
raised a red flag. If somebody hadn't we wouldn't know what we know now.

It actually works fairly well
Here is what I did:
1. I took an existing note page with an embedded file. I first verified
that the file existed in the cache.
2. I created a new empty section and copied the page into it.
3. Then I closed the section, moved it out of my OneNote Notebooks
folder and deleted all the files from the cache (not the cache itself,
but the _onefiles folder).

Are you sure you don't mean you created a new empty NOTEBOOK, put a
section in it, then closed the test NOTEBOOK? In ON 07 you can't close
just a section.

Also, are you sure you don't mean the OneNoteOfflineCache_Files folder?
This is the folder B2TR uses to cache the embedded files. The _onefiles
folders were used by plain B2 but aren't used any more.

4. The size of the new section file went up quite a bit. Too big a size
increase considering how little text was on that page.

Exactly when did the size of the .ONE file increase? When you embedded
the other file? When you closed the notebook? Only when you deleted the
cache files? (that would seem odd)

5. I then opened the section separately (File, Open Section). The
embedded file was there and I could open it perfectly. The embedded file
had also appeared in the cache _onefiles folder.

.. ^^^^^^^^^
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2. OneNote still needs the _onefiles cache folder. If a file is deleted

.. ^^^^^^^^^

from there while a section/notebook is open, then ON won't do anything
when you click on the file in ON.

Again, are you sure you don't mean the OneNoteOfflineCache_Files folder?

I personally think this works much better than before. The files are now
truly embedded and users can't just modify the files....

OK, if they are truly safely embedded in the .ONE files then I am
appeased. It still seems a little iffy to me. It will take a while before
I am comfortable with it. I like the notion of being able to get direct
access to a file if I need to. But I can see that, for most users, a full
embedding makes more sense. Just like a picture embedded in a Word file.
Who wants to keep track of a separate file for that picture and make sure
it stays with the document all the time.

 

[Grant Robertson]

Regarding those files in the cache:
- ON does do some automatic garbage collection there. But only on very
deep idle (e.g. could take a few days of inactivity)

Do you mean I would have to leave my computer on and unused for days?
(not ever gonna happen) Or do you mean I just have to not reference those
specific files for a few days.

- Tools, Options, Save, Optimize All Files now forces such a garbage
collection

Thank goodness!

- Unless you copy pages or edit files, you shouldn't see any dupes in
the _onefiles folder. If you do, let me know right away please.

When I created a brand new notebook with a brand new section and a brand
new page, then created one brand new text file on my desktop, then drug
that file onto that brand new page, ON created one, un-numbered, copy of
that file in the OneNoteOfflineCache_Files folder. When I opened that one
file by double-clicking on the icon in ON, edited it, then closed it
again, there were now three files in the OneNoteOfflineCache_Files
folder. One was the original and the two sequentially numbered ones had
the edits in them. Each time I opened, edited, then saved the files, two
MORE copies appeared. Each with the new edits in them. All the previous
versions of the files remained.

Finally, do you think, if I moved my cache folder to my third partition
(which is smaller and reserved only for messy stuff like caches and log
files) that ON would then stick within the limits imposed by the size of
that partition or would it start acting up? I really don't like the idea
of those cache files duplicating almost uncontrollably and hogging all
the space on my data-only partition. If all this works well enough, I
will be putting a whole lot of files into OneNote this way and opening
them on a pretty regular basis. I wouldn't want that
OneNoteOfflineCache_Files folder to get out of control and I really don't
want to have to go in and optimize it myself all the time.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I'm glad I was wrong but I'm not
sorry I raised a red flag. If somebody hadn't we wouldn't know what
we know now.

LOL

Your flag-raising assistent
Rainald

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Grant,

I see this as well. Let me look into this.

Patrick Schmid