ON not seeing Notebook

[Holo20]

Friends,

I was successfully using ON2007 on Vista, but had to re-install the OS due
to problems. I backed up my Notebooks (with all my other data)on an external
drive.

Now I am back in ON2007 on the new install of Vista. I have copied my
notebooks back into the default location, but ON is not seeing one of them.

I have checked to make sure that yes, I do still have the appropriate NTFS
permissions and am still OWNER of the folder in question. It is in the same
folder as the other three notebook folders, I just can't get ON to see it.

Any advice would be appreciated.

-Michael

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

Are you able to view the notebook in explorer? If so, can you
right-click the folder for the notebook and select "Open as Notebook in
OneNote"?

Ilya

 

[Holo20]

Ilya, thank you!

That seems to have done the trick. All of the sections in that Notebook now
have ".one (On 9-7-2007)" appended to the end of the section name, but I
should be able to rename them without any problems?

I there a more preferred or proper method of backing up OneNote data or
Notebooks?

-Michael

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

Ilya, thank you!

That seems to have done the trick. All of the sections in that Notebook now
have ".one (On 9-7-2007)" appended to the end of the section name, but I
should be able to rename them without any problems?

I there a more preferred or proper method of backing up OneNote data or
Notebooks?

If you want to back up an entire notebook, typically the best approach
is to navigate to the notebook folder in windows explorer, and copy the
entire folder somewhere. You can then copy the folder back when you want
to restore the notebook. You can also save a copy of a notebook as a
OneNote package if you don't have access to the location where it is stored.

Ilya

 

[Rainald Taesler]

If you want to back up an entire notebook, typically the best
approach is to navigate to the notebook folder in windows explorer,
and copy
the entire folder somewhere. You can then copy the folder back when
you want to restore the notebook. You can also save a copy of a
notebook as a OneNote package if you don't have access to the location
where it is stored.

This is just a workaround. Not more.
Sorry to say so, but I really wonder why ON has a backup-feature at all
if even a developer knows nothing better than that :-(
Or: Am I missing something?

Rainald
P.S. Wouldn't it be a better workaround to let ON make it's backups and
when needing to restore something just rename the latest backup-file
(cutting off the tail with the date) and put that back into the folder
where the backup is deriving from?