OneNote disappeard from Vista Search locations

[JuergenS]

After performing a System Restore or Complete Backup Restore the search index
in Vista Search (4.0) does not contain Outlook or OneNote as "Included
Location" in the "Indexing Options".
Outlook shows up after the first time it gets started. Unfortunatly this is
no the case for OneNote. This results in reducing the OneNote search
capabilty on the current page rather than all notebooks.
Is there any procedure to get OneNote into the index again?
A OneNote "repair" does not fix the issue.
(Verified on 2 different systems w/ Vista Ultimate SP1 and OneNote 2007 SP1)

 

[Rainald Taesler]

After performing a System Restore or Complete Backup Restore the
search index in Vista Search (4.0) does not contain Outlook or
OneNote as "Included Location" in the "Indexing Options".
Outlook shows up after the first time it gets started. Unfortunatly
this is no the case for OneNote. This results in reducing the
OneNote search capabilty on the current page rather than all
notebooks.
Is there any procedure to get OneNote into the index again?
A OneNote "repair" does not fix the issue.
(Verified on 2 different systems w/ Vista Ultimate SP1 and OneNote
2007 SP1)

In the past I had this problem too, several times.
It went away like magic.

Did you kill the Index completely?

IIRC the problem was cured on my machines by forcing the Indexer to
recreate the Index from scratch, stopping the Indexing and then setting
the locations to be indexed anew.

Gruß vom Neckarstrand
Rainald

 

[JuergenS]

In the past I had this problem too, several times.
It went away like magic.

Did you kill the Index completely?

IIRC the problem was cured on my machines by forcing the Indexer to
recreate the Index from scratch, stopping the Indexing and then setting
the locations to be indexed anew.

Gruß vom Neckarstrand
Rainald

Thanks for your assistance. It pointed me into the right direction.

The solution is to have at least one folder w/ a notebook (.one file)
configured as a search location (which usally is not the case on my systems).
After the indexer has seen this notebook it creates the generic "Microsoft
Office OneNote" location entry and indexes all notebooks opened in OneNote no
matter where they are stored. You can actually remove the folder mentioned
above from the search locations.
This behavior feels a bit weird - but ok, now as I know how it works it
allows me to use "Complete PC Restore" w/o loosing important search
functionality.

Grüße von der Ruhr
Jürgen

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Thanks fro your valuable feedback, Jürgen!

Thanks for your assistance. It pointed me into the right direction.

Glad to hear that I could contribute a bit.

The solution is to have at least one folder w/ a notebook (.one
file) configured as a search location (which usally is not the case
on my systems). After the indexer has seen this notebook it creates
the generic "Microsoft Office OneNote" location entry and indexes
all notebooks opened in OneNote no matter where they are stored.
You can actually remove the folder mentioned above from the search
locations.

Most interesting!
I would have never thought of that, especially as my "OneNote notebooks"
directory is sitting on my data-partition (where I have all my data
files of any sort).

This behavior feels a bit weird - but ok, now as I know how it
works it allows me to use "Complete PC Restore" w/o loosing
important search functionality.

That's one of the OS' features I hardly ever used.
I'm doing my backups with Acronis True Image and I'm very happy with it.
Even the new things in Vista are not to my taste :-(

Thanks again,
beste Grüße retour
and die Ruhr.

Rainald