Onenote issues

[FaisalBeg]

Hi,

I have OneNote 2007 installed on my computer. I have a networked
filesystem accessed via a samba share.

I store my notebooks on the shared filesystem as I want to have my
notebooks available on my desktop as well as my laptop.

Recently, one of my notebooks synchronization just keeps on running.
It doesnt want to stop. The total size of my OneNote cache is about
209 MB.

Any ideas or suggestions on what is going on and how I can tweak the
settings to get the notebook synched and rest?

Thanks,

Faisal

 

[John Guin]

What Samba build are you running?

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Have you tried forcing a manual sync? Go into File, Synchronization,
Synchronization status and click sync now for this particular notebook.

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[FaisalBeg]

The samba server version is 3.0.25a.

I have tried manual sync too, and it still goes on and on....it is
strange that this is only for one of the notebooks, the others are
fine (although they are in the same location). Also, initially, this
was not the case, it is only recently that this has started to
happen.

I had another problem - I want to use OneNote shared notebook feature.
So I created a shared notebook on a shared filespace that is
accessible by the samba server from two computers. Now, when I open
the notebook, my colleague cant access it, and when he opens it, I
cant access it. I get the error:

"This section contains changes that cannot be synced because the
access to the section file is denied. Correct the file permissions or
save your copy of this section elsewhere."

Apparently, my onenote kept on trying to read/sync with the shared
space, and in that process, it created hundreds/thousands of files in
that location slowing down the access to the filesystem for
everyone...

So, for now, I am unable to use shared notebooks.

Will really appreciate any ideas to overcome these issues.

Thanks!

Faisal

Have you tried forcing a manual sync? Go into File, Synchronization,
Synchronization status and click sync now for this particular notebook.

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Hi,

I have OneNote 2007 installed on my computer. I have a networked
filesystem accessed via a samba share.

I store my notebooks on the shared filesystem as I want to have my
notebooks available on my desktop as well as my laptop.

Recently, one of my notebooks synchronization just keeps on running.
It doesnt want to stop. The total size of my OneNote cache is about
209 MB.

Any ideas or suggestions on what is going on and how I can tweak the
settings to get the notebook synched and rest?

Faisal

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Try the following to fix your problem. In OneNote, right-click the
troublesome notebook, select Properties and click change on the
location. Pick a location that is locally on your Windows computer.
OneNote will now create the notebook again at that location. Go to that
folder with Windows Explorer. Make sure it is there, then close the
notebook in OneNote. Now delete the notebook from the Samba server and
copy the folder that is the notebook via Windows Explorer to your samba
fileshare. Then go into OneNote, File, Open Notebook and open it from
there.
There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a shared
notebook. Both are the same thing. A notebook is simple a folder that
contains .one files and other folders. The error message you get
suggests that the permissions for the file share or the files themselves
are not correctly set. You'll have to fix that directly on the samba
file share, this is not a OneNote issue.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a shared
notebook. Both are the same thing.

The samba server version is 3.0.25a.

I have tried manual sync too, and it still goes on and on....it is
strange that this is only for one of the notebooks, the others are
fine (although they are in the same location). Also, initially, this
was not the case, it is only recently that this has started to
happen.

I had another problem - I want to use OneNote shared notebook feature.
So I created a shared notebook on a shared filespace that is
accessible by the samba server from two computers. Now, when I open
the notebook, my colleague cant access it, and when he opens it, I
cant access it. I get the error:

"This section contains changes that cannot be synced because the
access to the section file is denied. Correct the file permissions or
save your copy of this section elsewhere."

Apparently, my onenote kept on trying to read/sync with the shared
space, and in that process, it created hundreds/thousands of files in
that location slowing down the access to the filesystem for
everyone...

So, for now, I am unable to use shared notebooks.

Will really appreciate any ideas to overcome these issues.

Thanks!

Faisal

Have you tried forcing a manual sync? Go into File, Synchronization,
Synchronization status and click sync now for this particular notebook.

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Hi,

I have OneNote 2007 installed on my computer. I have a networked
filesystem accessed via a samba share.

I store my notebooks on the shared filesystem as I want to have my
notebooks available on my desktop as well as my laptop.

Recently, one of my notebooks synchronization just keeps on running.
It doesnt want to stop. The total size of my OneNote cache is about
209 MB.

Any ideas or suggestions on what is going on and how I can tweak the
settings to get the notebook synched and rest?

Faisal

 

[FaisalBeg]

Thanks for your suggestion - I am trying it right now. I checked the
folder on the shared filesystem, and windows reports it to have 95,368
files totalling 417 MB. The size of the same folder that I copied
locally is 41 files totalling 51 MB. The delete process is going
through a lot of these filenames of the type
{8E785569-7C18-4B46-8CF8-29CEF1AE12C7}...

So something is causing Onenote to generate these thousands of files.
Hopefully by following what you have suggested, this will go away.
Will update in a day or so on the progress.

For the notebook I am sharing with a colleague, both of us can read
the notebook and write to it, but separately, and not simultaneously.
The file permissions are right now set to be readable/writable by
everyone. So I am a bit lost on what I should do. I have seen others
also report the same problem on the web, for example here:
http://www.whitworth.org/Blog/PermaLink,guid,c4fb942d-2014-4eed-a4a4-f2e66280995d.aspx
but there does not seem to be a suggested solution and theoretically,
this article, and my experience, could be stemming from the same
underlying file permissions issues.

If you have any ideas on this, that will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for your help.

Faisal

Try the following to fix your problem. In OneNote, right-click the
troublesome notebook, select Properties and click change on the
location. Pick a location that is locally on your Windows computer.
OneNote will now create the notebook again at that location. Go to that
folder with Windows Explorer. Make sure it is there, then close the
notebook in OneNote. Now delete the notebook from the Samba server and
copy the folder that is the notebook via Windows Explorer to your samba
fileshare. Then go into OneNote, File, Open Notebook and open it from
there.
There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a shared
notebook. Both are the same thing. A notebook is simple a folder that
contains .one files and other folders. The error message you get
suggests that the permissions for the file share or the files themselves
are not correctly set. You'll have to fix that directly on the samba
file share, this is not a OneNote issue.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a shared

The samba server version is 3.0.25a.

I have tried manual sync too, and it still goes on and on....it is
strange that this is only for one of the notebooks, the others are
fine (although they are in the same location). Also, initially, this
was not the case, it is only recently that this has started to
happen.

I had another problem - I want to use OneNote shared notebook feature.
So I created a shared notebook on a shared filespace that is
accessible by the samba server from two computers. Now, when I open
the notebook, my colleague cant access it, and when he opens it, I
cant access it. I get the error:

"This section contains changes that cannot be synced because the
access to the section file is denied. Correct the file permissions or
save your copy of this section elsewhere."

Apparently, my onenote kept on trying to read/sync with the shared
space, and in that process, it created hundreds/thousands of files in
that location slowing down the access to the filesystem for
everyone...

So, for now, I am unable to use shared notebooks.

Will really appreciate any ideas to overcome these issues.

Thanks!

Faisal

Have you tried forcing a manual sync? Go into File, Synchronization,
Synchronization status and click sync now for this particular notebook.
Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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Hi,
I have OneNote 2007 installed on my computer. I have a networked
filesystem accessed via a samba share.
I store my notebooks on the shared filesystem as I want to have my
notebooks available on my desktop as well as my laptop.
Recently, one of my notebooks synchronization just keeps on running.
It doesnt want to stop. The total size of my OneNote cache is about
209 MB.
Any ideas or suggestions on what is going on and how I can tweak the
settings to get the notebook synched and rest?
Thanks,
Faisal

 

[FaisalBeg]

I followed your suggestion, copied the offending notebook locally,
deleted the network copy, copied the local version back to the
network, and opened it in Onenote. It still does not want to stop
syncing. The green dial keeps churning....

Thanks for your suggestion - I am trying it right now. I checked the
folder on the shared filesystem, and windows reports it to have 95,368
files totalling 417 MB. The size of the same folder that I copied
locally is 41 files totalling 51 MB. The delete process is going
through a lot of these filenames of the type
{8E785569-7C18-4B46-8CF8-29CEF1AE12C7}...

So something is causing Onenote to generate these thousands of files.
Hopefully by following what you have suggested, this will go away.
Will update in a day or so on the progress.

For the notebook I am sharing with a colleague, both of us can read
the notebook and write to it, but separately, and not simultaneously.
The file permissions are right now set to be readable/writable by
everyone. So I am a bit lost on what I should do. I have seen others
also report the same problem on the web, for example here:http://www.whitworth.org/Blog/PermaLink,guid,c4fb942d-2014-4eed-a4a4-...
but there does not seem to be a suggested solution and theoretically,
this article, and my experience, could be stemming from the same
underlying file permissions issues.

If you have any ideas on this, that will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for your help.

Faisal

Try the following to fix your problem. In OneNote, right-click the
troublesome notebook, select Properties and click change on the
location. Pick a location that is locally on your Windows computer.
OneNote will now create the notebook again at that location. Go to that
folder with Windows Explorer. Make sure it is there, then close the
notebook in OneNote. Now delete the notebook from the Samba server and
copy the folder that is the notebook via Windows Explorer to your samba
fileshare. Then go into OneNote, File, Open Notebook and open it from
there.
There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a shared
notebook. Both are the same thing. A notebook is simple a folder that
contains .one files and other folders. The error message you get
suggests that the permissions for the file share or the files themselves
are not correctly set. You'll have to fix that directly on the samba
file share, this is not a OneNote issue.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a shared

news:[email protected]:

The samba server version is 3.0.25a.
I have tried manual sync too, and it still goes on and on....it is
strange that this is only for one of the notebooks, the others are
fine (although they are in the same location). Also, initially, this
was not the case, it is only recently that this has started to
happen.
I had another problem - I want to use OneNote shared notebook feature.
So I created a shared notebook on a shared filespace that is
accessible by the samba server from two computers. Now, when I open
the notebook, my colleague cant access it, and when he opens it, I
cant access it. I get the error:
"This section contains changes that cannot be synced because the
access to the section file is denied. Correct the file permissions or
save your copy of this section elsewhere."
Apparently, my onenote kept on trying to read/sync with the shared
space, and in that process, it created hundreds/thousands of files in
that location slowing down the access to the filesystem for
everyone...
So, for now, I am unable to use shared notebooks.
Will really appreciate any ideas to overcome these issues.
Thanks!
Faisal
On Jun 12, 5:03 pm, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Have you tried forcing a manual sync? Go into File, Synchronization,
Synchronization status and click sync now for this particular notebook.
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Hi,
I have OneNote 2007 installed on my computer. I have a networked
filesystem accessed via a samba share.
I store my notebooks on the shared filesystem as I want to have my
notebooks available on my desktop as well as my laptop.
Recently, one of my notebooks synchronization just keeps on running.
It doesnt want to stop. The total size of my OneNote cache is about
209 MB.
Any ideas or suggestions on what is going on and how I can tweak the
settings to get the notebook synched and rest?
Thanks,
Faisal

 

[Daniel Escapa [MS]]

Interesting, is your Samba server just a Linux/UNIX/Mac box you have setup
or was it one of those NAS attached storage devices that you can buy?
Something like Buffalo Systems attached storage?

We have heard of a couple reports of sync not working with Samba machines
because they didn't implement SMB correctly with the replace file command.
I really don't know more but we are trying to find out what is going on and
trying to get more repro steps so we can look into it ourselves.

Please let us know...thank you!

I followed your suggestion, copied the offending notebook locally,
deleted the network copy, copied the local version back to the
network, and opened it in Onenote. It still does not want to stop
syncing. The green dial keeps churning....

Thanks for your suggestion - I am trying it right now. I checked the
folder on the shared filesystem, and windows reports it to have 95,368
files totalling 417 MB. The size of the same folder that I copied
locally is 41 files totalling 51 MB. The delete process is going
through a lot of these filenames of the type
{8E785569-7C18-4B46-8CF8-29CEF1AE12C7}...

So something is causing Onenote to generate these thousands of files.
Hopefully by following what you have suggested, this will go away.
Will update in a day or so on the progress.

For the notebook I am sharing with a colleague, both of us can read
the notebook and write to it, but separately, and not simultaneously.
The file permissions are right now set to be readable/writable by
everyone. So I am a bit lost on what I should do. I have seen others
also report the same problem on the web, for example
here:http://www.whitworth.org/Blog/PermaLink,guid,c4fb942d-2014-4eed-a4a4-...
but there does not seem to be a suggested solution and theoretically,
this article, and my experience, could be stemming from the same
underlying file permissions issues.

If you have any ideas on this, that will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for your help.

Faisal

Try the following to fix your problem. In OneNote, right-click the
troublesome notebook, select Properties and click change on the
location. Pick a location that is locally on your Windows computer.
OneNote will now create the notebook again at that location. Go to that
folder with Windows Explorer. Make sure it is there, then close the
notebook in OneNote. Now delete the notebook from the Samba server and
copy the folder that is the notebook via Windows Explorer to your samba
fileshare. Then go into OneNote, File, Open Notebook and open it from
there.
There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a
shared
notebook. Both are the same thing. A notebook is simple a folder that
contains .one files and other folders. The error message you get
suggests that the permissions for the file share or the files
themselves
are not correctly set. You'll have to fix that directly on the samba
file share, this is not a OneNote issue.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------http://pschmid.net
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There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a
shared
notebook. Both are the same thing."FaisalBeg"


The samba server version is 3.0.25a.

I have tried manual sync too, and it still goes on and on....it is
strange that this is only for one of the notebooks, the others are
fine (although they are in the same location). Also, initially, this
was not the case, it is only recently that this has started to
happen.

I had another problem - I want to use OneNote shared notebook
feature.
So I created a shared notebook on a shared filespace that is
accessible by the samba server from two computers. Now, when I open
the notebook, my colleague cant access it, and when he opens it, I
cant access it. I get the error:

"This section contains changes that cannot be synced because the
access to the section file is denied. Correct the file permissions or
save your copy of this section elsewhere."

Apparently, my onenote kept on trying to read/sync with the shared
space, and in that process, it created hundreds/thousands of files in
that location slowing down the access to the filesystem for
everyone...

So, for now, I am unable to use shared notebooks.

Will really appreciate any ideas to overcome these issues.


On Jun 12, 5:03 pm, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Have you tried forcing a manual sync? Go into File,
Synchronization,
Synchronization status and click sync now for this particular
notebook.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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I have OneNote 2007 installed on my computer. I have a networked
filesystem accessed via a samba share.

I store my notebooks on the shared filesystem as I want to have
my
notebooks available on my desktop as well as my laptop.

Recently, one of my notebooks synchronization just keeps on
running.
It doesnt want to stop. The total size of my OneNote cache is
about
209 MB.

Any ideas or suggestions on what is going on and how I can tweak
the
settings to get the notebook synched and rest?

Faisal

 

[FaisalBeg]

Our filesystem is on a SUN NAS file server which has built in version
of samba for users who wish to mount the filesystem directly. However
I am not mapping my home directory this way. I am mounting my home
directory by the way of our samba server ver 3.0.25a (bluebell) on
SuSE Linux 10.

For one of my earlier problems of continual syncing on one notebook,
changing the notebook location as suggested to a local place on C:
(result is 41 files), deleting the original network version (where
onenote had generated upwards of 95,000 internal files), and copying
the notebook from C: back to the network has helped somewhat - before
the syncing was continual, now, it does stabilize.It seems that this
one notebook syncs more frequently than others - sometimes, just
bringing the focus on to onenote window gets it going...
But as compared to before, it is at least not running sync operation
continuously.

The main outstanding issues for my Onenote 2007 install is still my
inability to simultaneously edit shared notebooks with other people,
but each person can independently edit them. Seems that the first
person to open the notebook puts a "lock" on it. The sys-admins here
were also able to replicate the problem, but no solution has been
found so far.

I would really want to make this shared notebooks feature work. I am
happy to provide details regarding the system setup here if that helps
in any way. Thanks for any ideas and suggestions.

Interesting, is your Samba server just a Linux/UNIX/Mac box you have setup
or was it one of those NAS attached storage devices that you can buy?
Something like Buffalo Systems attached storage?

We have heard of a couple reports of sync not working with Samba machines
because they didn't implement SMB correctly with the replace file command.
I really don't know more but we are trying to find out what is going on and
trying to get more repro steps so we can look into it ourselves.

Please let us know...thank you!

I followed your suggestion, copied the offending notebook locally,
deleted the network copy, copied the local version back to the
network, and opened it in Onenote. It still does not want to stop
syncing. The green dial keeps churning....

Thanks for your suggestion - I am trying it right now. I checked the
folder on the shared filesystem, and windows reports it to have 95,368
files totalling 417 MB. The size of the same folder that I copied
locally is 41 files totalling 51 MB. The delete process is going
through a lot of these filenames of the type
{8E785569-7C18-4B46-8CF8-29CEF1AE12C7}...
So something is causing Onenote to generate these thousands of files.
Hopefully by following what you have suggested, this will go away.
Will update in a day or so on the progress.
For the notebook I am sharing with a colleague, both of us can read
the notebook and write to it, but separately, and not simultaneously.
The file permissions are right now set to be readable/writable by
everyone. So I am a bit lost on what I should do. I have seen others
also report the same problem on the web, for example
here:http://www.whitworth.org/Blog/PermaLink,guid,c4fb942d-2014-4eed-a4a4-...
but there does not seem to be a suggested solution and theoretically,
this article, and my experience, could be stemming from the same
underlying file permissions issues.
If you have any ideas on this, that will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for your help.
Faisal
On Jun 12, 8:16 pm, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Try the following to fix your problem. In OneNote, right-click the
troublesome notebook, select Properties and click change on the
location. Pick a location that is locally on your Windows computer.
OneNote will now create the notebook again at that location. Go to that
folder with Windows Explorer. Make sure it is there, then close the
notebook in OneNote. Now delete the notebook from the Samba server and
copy the folder that is the notebook via Windows Explorer to your samba
fileshare. Then go into OneNote, File, Open Notebook and open it from
there.
There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a
shared
notebook. Both are the same thing. A notebook is simple a folder that
contains .one files and other folders. The error message you get
suggests that the permissions for the file share or the files
themselves
are not correctly set. You'll have to fix that directly on the samba
file share, this is not a OneNote issue.
Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------http://pschmid.net
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There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a
shared
notebook. Both are the same thing."FaisalBeg"

The samba server version is 3.0.25a.
I have tried manual sync too, and it still goes on and on....it is
strange that this is only for one of the notebooks, the others are
fine (although they are in the same location). Also, initially, this
was not the case, it is only recently that this has started to
happen.
I had another problem - I want to use OneNote shared notebook
feature.
So I created a shared notebook on a shared filespace that is
accessible by the samba server from two computers. Now, when I open
the notebook, my colleague cant access it, and when he opens it, I
cant access it. I get the error:
"This section contains changes that cannot be synced because the
access to the section file is denied. Correct the file permissions or
save your copy of this section elsewhere."
Apparently, my onenote kept on trying to read/sync with the shared
space, and in that process, it created hundreds/thousands of files in
that location slowing down the access to the filesystem for
everyone...
So, for now, I am unable to use shared notebooks.
Will really appreciate any ideas to overcome these issues.
Thanks!
Faisal
On Jun 12, 5:03 pm, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Have you tried forcing a manual sync? Go into File,
Synchronization,
Synchronization status and click sync now for this particular
notebook.
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Hi,
I have OneNote 2007 installed on my computer. I have a networked
filesystem accessed via a samba share.
I store my notebooks on the shared filesystem as I want to have
my
notebooks available on my desktop as well as my laptop.
Recently, one of my notebooks synchronization just keeps on
running.
It doesnt want to stop. The total size of my OneNote cache is
about
209 MB.
Any ideas or suggestions on what is going on and how I can tweak
the
settings to get the notebook synched and rest?
Thanks,
Faisal

 

[Daniel Escapa [MS]]

Ah! A NAS running Samba..we have been getting a lot of complaints about
this recently.

I don't know the details but I don't know if OneNote is at fault or if Samba
isn't fully implementing the SMB protocal. I will be collecting all of
these Samba threads and emailing it to some of the storage folks on the team
and we can see if we get more details.

In the meantime if you can store your files on a Windows file share (even
your local desktop) that should work just fine. Or if you have SharePoint
installed somehwere you can use that as well.

Thank you for this information and we will try and keep you posted, this
infomration is very useful.

Our filesystem is on a SUN NAS file server which has built in version
of samba for users who wish to mount the filesystem directly. However
I am not mapping my home directory this way. I am mounting my home
directory by the way of our samba server ver 3.0.25a (bluebell) on
SuSE Linux 10.

For one of my earlier problems of continual syncing on one notebook,
changing the notebook location as suggested to a local place on C:
(result is 41 files), deleting the original network version (where
onenote had generated upwards of 95,000 internal files), and copying
the notebook from C: back to the network has helped somewhat - before
the syncing was continual, now, it does stabilize.It seems that this
one notebook syncs more frequently than others - sometimes, just
bringing the focus on to onenote window gets it going...
But as compared to before, it is at least not running sync operation
continuously.

The main outstanding issues for my Onenote 2007 install is still my
inability to simultaneously edit shared notebooks with other people,
but each person can independently edit them. Seems that the first
person to open the notebook puts a "lock" on it. The sys-admins here
were also able to replicate the problem, but no solution has been
found so far.

I would really want to make this shared notebooks feature work. I am
happy to provide details regarding the system setup here if that helps
in any way. Thanks for any ideas and suggestions.

Interesting, is your Samba server just a Linux/UNIX/Mac box you have
setup
or was it one of those NAS attached storage devices that you can buy?
Something like Buffalo Systems attached storage?

We have heard of a couple reports of sync not working with Samba machines
because they didn't implement SMB correctly with the replace file
command.
I really don't know more but we are trying to find out what is going on
and
trying to get more repro steps so we can look into it ourselves.

Please let us know...thank you!

I followed your suggestion, copied the offending notebook locally,
deleted the network copy, copied the local version back to the
network, and opened it in Onenote. It still does not want to stop
syncing. The green dial keeps churning....

Thanks for your suggestion - I am trying it right now. I checked the
folder on the shared filesystem, and windows reports it to have 95,368
files totalling 417 MB. The size of the same folder that I copied
locally is 41 files totalling 51 MB. The delete process is going
through a lot of these filenames of the type
{8E785569-7C18-4B46-8CF8-29CEF1AE12C7}...

So something is causing Onenote to generate these thousands of files.
Hopefully by following what you have suggested, this will go away.
Will update in a day or so on the progress.

For the notebook I am sharing with a colleague, both of us can read
the notebook and write to it, but separately, and not simultaneously.
The file permissions are right now set to be readable/writable by
everyone. So I am a bit lost on what I should do. I have seen others
also report the same problem on the web, for example
here:http://www.whitworth.org/Blog/PermaLink,guid,c4fb942d-2014-4eed-a4a4-...
but there does not seem to be a suggested solution and theoretically,
this article, and my experience, could be stemming from the same
underlying file permissions issues.

If you have any ideas on this, that will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for your help.

On Jun 12, 8:16 pm, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <[email protected]>
wrote:

Try the following to fix your problem. In OneNote, right-click the
troublesome notebook, select Properties and click change on the
location. Pick a location that is locally on your Windows computer.
OneNote will now create the notebook again at that location. Go to
that
folder with Windows Explorer. Make sure it is there, then close the
notebook in OneNote. Now delete the notebook from the Samba server
and
copy the folder that is the notebook via Windows Explorer to your
samba
fileshare. Then go into OneNote, File, Open Notebook and open it
from
there.
There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a
shared
notebook. Both are the same thing. A notebook is simple a folder
that
contains .one files and other folders. The error message you get
suggests that the permissions for the file share or the files
themselves
are not correctly set. You'll have to fix that directly on the samba
file share, this is not a OneNote issue.

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There is no technical difference between a regular notebook and a
shared
notebook. Both are the same thing."FaisalBeg"


The samba server version is 3.0.25a.

I have tried manual sync too, and it still goes on and on....it is
strange that this is only for one of the notebooks, the others are
fine (although they are in the same location). Also, initially,
this
was not the case, it is only recently that this has started to
happen.

I had another problem - I want to use OneNote shared notebook
feature.
So I created a shared notebook on a shared filespace that is
accessible by the samba server from two computers. Now, when I
open
the notebook, my colleague cant access it, and when he opens it, I
cant access it. I get the error:

"This section contains changes that cannot be synced because the
access to the section file is denied. Correct the file permissions
or
save your copy of this section elsewhere."

Apparently, my onenote kept on trying to read/sync with the shared
space, and in that process, it created hundreds/thousands of files
in
that location slowing down the access to the filesystem for
everyone...

So, for now, I am unable to use shared notebooks.

Will really appreciate any ideas to overcome these issues.


On Jun 12, 5:03 pm, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Have you tried forcing a manual sync? Go into File,
Synchronization,
Synchronization status and click sync now for this particular
notebook.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------http://pschmid.net
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I have OneNote 2007 installed on my computer. I have a
networked
filesystem accessed via a samba share.

I store my notebooks on the shared filesystem as I want to
have
my
notebooks available on my desktop as well as my laptop.

Recently, one of my notebooks synchronization just keeps on
running.
It doesnt want to stop. The total size of my OneNote cache is
about
209 MB.

Any ideas or suggestions on what is going on and how I can
tweak
the
settings to get the notebook synched and rest?

Faisal