OneNote 2007 Notebook question

[cocomon58]

When I opened up my OneNote 2007 program today, I noticed that all my
notebooks have a message (when I hover over them) that says "This notebook is
not connected. Changes are not being synchronized."
I don't know what this means. I have tried to manually synchronize, but it
won't let me.

Please help.
Thanks.

 

[Erik Sojka]

If you have the Notebooks stored on a network location or removable storage
ON will keep a copy locally in a cache and synchronize that local copy with
the remote storage location when it is connected.

Where are the Notebooks being stored? It shold be in the same ToolTip that
told you about the syncing condition. If that location is not available
that will generate that message. Letting us know what that location is
will help us provide next steps.

 

[cocomon58]

The notebooks are stored on my hard drive. I've also copied them to a flash
drive.

I really appreciate your help!

Thanks
Tes

 

[Bernd]

I assume following scenario:

1. you closed your local notebook
2. you copied it to the flashdrive
3. you opened this notebook to see if it works; the local cache is
generated
4. you removed the flashdrive
5. you forgot that you had opened the copy
6. you changed the copy (the changes are made to the local cache only;
OneNote will NOT inform you about that fact at this moment)
7. you closed OneNote
8. you opened OneNote and got the messages you mentioned and OneNote is
right !

If I am right the solution is:

1. put in your flashdrive
2. let OneNote sync
3. close the notebook
4. open the local notebook

Bernd



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[Bernd]

The solution should be:

1. put in your flashdrive
2. let OneNote sync
3. close the notebook
3a. copy the flashdrive notebook back over the local one
4. open the local notebook

Bernd


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[cocomon58]

I've tried putting the flash drive in, but OneNote won't sync and I am unable
to sync it manually.

I've tried removing the copy of my notebooks from my flash drive and then
putting them back on the flash drive, but it didn't make any difference.

I appreciate any feedback and help!

 

[Bernd]

Did you check the locations/paths of your notebooks in the left
navigation pane by holding the mouse over it and waiting for the tooltip
with information about location/path ?
If so, have you checked if you can reach them with windows explorer
(check their file properties, for instance)?

Bernd

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[cocomon58]

Yes, I just checked the path/location and here is what it said:

\\?\Volume{3351f9c9-0907-11de-9789-001a92de2b59}\ONE-NOTE NOTEBOOKS\SCHOOL
NOTEBOOKS

I'm not a genius with computers, but I'm assuming that means it doesn't know
where it is??

 

[Bernd]

Mmmmmh...Looks strange. Please search your local disk for *.one files.
Each .one file contains a section from a notebook. Normally these files
should reside under My Documents\OneNote-Notebooks\<name of a notebook>
(the notebook itself is only a directory,filled with 1 or more sections
= .one files.
If you find *.one files compare their names with your section names.

Bernd

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[Bernd]

Found an explanation for the strange path:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365248.aspx

Looks like your notebook resides on a flashdrive-volume as I assumed.
Could it be that your flashdrive hadn't get a drive letter or different
drive letters at different times ?
I don't remember how ON solves the problem of recognizing it's files
with different drive letters.
So you should expand the search for *.one files to your flashdrive(s).

Bernd

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[Rainald Taesler]

Found an explanation for the strange path:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365248.aspx

Looks like your notebook resides on a flashdrive-volume as I assumed.
Could it be that your flashdrive hadn't get a drive letter or
different drive letters at different times ?
I don't remember how ON solves the problem of recognizing it's files
with different drive letters.
So you should expand the search for *.one files to your flashdrive(s).

Since I first read the initial posting I have been thinking that it's an
issue
with a missing USB stick/flash drive.
Probably the notebooks were opened from a flash drive and now the drive is
not attached to the computer.

David Rasmussen's article "OneNote Notebooks on USB drives and SD cards"[1]
explains that each removable device has a unique ID and therefore the
drive-letters don't matter.

Rainald
[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2006/06/29/650705.aspx

 

[Bernd]

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Found an explanation for the strange path:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365248.aspx

Looks like your notebook resides on a flashdrive-volume as I assumed.
Could it be that your flashdrive hadn't get a drive letter or
different drive letters at different times ?
I don't remember how ON solves the problem of recognizing it's files
with different drive letters.
So you should expand the search for *.one files to your flashdrive(s).

Since I first read the initial posting I have been thinking that it's an
issue
with a missing USB stick/flash drive.
Probably the notebooks were opened from a flash drive and now the drive is
not attached to the computer.

David Rasmussen's article "OneNote Notebooks on USB drives and SD cards"[1]
explains that each removable device has a unique ID and therefore the
drive-letters don't matter.

Rainald
[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2006/06/29/650705.aspx

Thank you, now I remember ... ;-)

Bernd

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Thank you, now I remember ... ;-)

Gern geschehn ;-)

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Yes, I just checked the path/location and here is what it said:

\\?\Volume{3351f9c9-0907-11de-9789-001a92de2b59}\ONE-NOTE
NOTEBOOKS\SCHOOL NOTEBOOKS

I'm not a genius with computers, but I'm assuming that means it
doesn't know where it is??

Even without being a "genius" you might remember what you did. <bg>

The situation is clear as clear can be:
1.) You did not only "copy" the notebooks to the flash drive.
You did *OPEN* them from there (not from the hard drive).

2.) You are now working without the flash drive being plugged in.
You are *not* working with the notebook-file but only in the *cache*
(ON's workbench).
If the source (the file on the stick) is present, ON writes the changed
data to the file. It automatically synchronizes the data in the cache
with the data in the notebook file.

If the data are in synch, this is shown by a green icon in the right
side
of the notebook's header in the navigation pane.
As the stick is absent synching is not possible. In this case the icon
turns gray with a red "no entry" sign.

3.) The basic construction of ON with using the cache and automatic
synching is one of the best things in ON.
If one uses more than just one computer (a desktop and a laptop,f.e.)
the data will be in synch as long as the computers are connected (via
LAN or WLAN or just a cable) the data in the connected computers are
identical. When they are disconnected (the laptop being "on the road")
one can work on both computers. And as soon as they are re-connected the
automatic synching will make everything up-to-date.

They way it works with files stored on a stick makes it possible to use
the stick as the main storage medium: One can use the stick on more than
just one computer and everything keeps in synch.
I'd really wish this would be possible with other applications too.

4.) In order to get things OK, just insert the stick.
ON will then automatically synch so that the notebook file will be
up-to-date again.

That's all. Pretty easy, isn't it? ;-)

Added: In case the stick should be lost, pls let us know.
The same if you want to work with files stored on the HDD.
We'll show you what to do, step-by-step.

Rainald