OneNote Hanging - Corrupt File?

[Adam]

Hello,

I recently got a Toshiba M200 and have started using OneNote for the last 2
weeks to take notes at work. I am concerned theat one of my OneNote
sections, one of my larger ones so far - 400K, locks up OneNote when I try to
access it. Looking at the processes, OneNote is using 99% of CPU during this
lockup. All the other sections/folders appear to work accept this one. It
ussually stays in a non-responsive mode for a couple minutes, then frees back
up. I can at this point use the main menu, but if i touch anything in the
folder doucment area, OneNote locks up again. I generally have to kill
OneNote in most cases. I can get back into OneNote to access other
documents/sections by double clicking on the other sections in my notebook
directory tree.

This is very frustrating as it makes this document essentially unusable.
And concerns me that other sections might fall victim to the same issues. I
don't have anything embedded in this section except for some to-dos.

I have SP1 (11.6360.6360) as far as I can tell from this site. I have 512M
memory and no other applications running when this happens.

I tried using the Detect and Repair tool, but this didn't help either.

Does anyone have any ideas on what this could be? How to avoid it other
than not using OneNote?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Adam,

Can't answer your question, but some software suffers from file bloat when
closing down using the X in the top right corner. You could try opening ON
anew and immediately use Save As... Then close down using the File/Exit
route. You might have to repeat all these steps with each folder in turn.
I'd be very interested to know if this works Good Luck!

Mike Glen

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

Adam,

Over many months there have been a handful (by my recollection) of
reports like this where specific files behave as you describe. It
happens but it's rare, as far as I am aware.

I have sections much bigger than 400k which respond nicely. So, my
guess is that it's something specific to your section.

One thing to check, but I suspect it won't help hugely, is the
Optimising facility. Select Tools | Options | Open & Save. If the
optimize sections option is unchecked try checking it.

If that doesn't help (and I suspect it won't) I would suggest cutting
and pasting material from the suspect section to a new one (or split
the material). With the 99% CPU behaviour that may take you a while
but if you can break out materia from the misbehaving sectionl into
sections that behave normally it may be worthwhile.

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

[Adam]

Hi Mike,

Based on your recommendation I gave this a try and at first though it
worked, but alas no it didn't fix the problem. However, it further pin
pointed the problem to one particular Note within the section. Doing a
"save as" on the section, put focus on the first note in the section which is
usable. I found one note which is the trouble make within the section. I
am going to try to get the content from this saved/copied and then see if I
can salvage the rest of the section.

I keep the group posted.

I have tried Andrew's suggestion of optimizing and this didn't appear to
have any effect.

I am somewhat suspicious of the to-dos (note flags) in this section. Is
there some attempt for these to-dos to integrate with outlook automatically?
I don't really know much about them.

Cheers,
Adam

 

[krypticide]

File size has nothing to do with it. I have a section that's > 100 MB large
and works just fine.

-Andy