recovering 'offline' files that have not synced with primary database

[Rod]

Help request: I use One Note while travelling quite a bit, and I sync
any changes either via VPN or when I return to the office. However,
yesterday my computer crashed & the tech who diagnosed it said that
Windows was corrupt and will need to be reloaded. Fortunately, the
drive integrity is fine, so for now he removed the hard drive & put in
an external USB drive enclosure. So all my files are still on the
drive... including 7 days of work in One Note that have not been
synced with our server. So my questions are:
1) Does anyone know how I can find these files?
2) How can I 'import' them into a fresh install of One Note (I have
bought a new laptop) so that I can access any of the files that I
changed during the last week?
Thanks for any help!
Rod

 

[Bernd]

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Help request: I use One Note while travelling quite a bit, and I sync
any changes either via VPN or when I return to the office. However,
yesterday my computer crashed & the tech who diagnosed it said that
Windows was corrupt and will need to be reloaded. Fortunately, the
drive integrity is fine, so for now he removed the hard drive & put in
an external USB drive enclosure. So all my files are still on the
drive... including 7 days of work in One Note that have not been
synced with our server. So my questions are:
1) Does anyone know how I can find these files?
2) How can I 'import' them into a fresh install of One Note (I have
bought a new laptop) so that I can access any of the files that I
changed during the last week?
Thanks for any help!
Rod

1. For safety: make a copy of your original unsynched notebooks.
2. Install Onenote on the new computer
3. Look under Tools --> Options --> Save for the Location of the so
called CACHE file. This directory will be the target for the recovery of
your unsynched changes.
4. Search on your old harddrive (the place depends on your OS and your
account) for the Onenote Cache file OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache
There your offline changes are stored.
5. Close your new Onenote.
6. Now copy the OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache to the target directory
mentioned above.
7. Open Onenote
8. If you have a connection to your original notebooks over the network
they should get synched now.

Bernd

 

[Rod]

-------- Original-Nachricht --------


1. For safety: make a copy of your original unsynched notebooks.
2. Install Onenote on the new computer
3. Look under Tools --> Options --> Save for the Location of the so
called CACHE file. This directory will be the target for the recovery of
your unsynched changes.
4. Search on your old harddrive (the place depends on your OS and your
account) for the Onenote Cache file OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache
There your offline changes are stored.
5. Close your new Onenote.
6. Now copy the OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache to the target directory
mentioned above.
7. Open Onenote
8. If you have a connection to your original notebooks over the network
they should get synched now.

Bernd

Thanks Bernd!
I am going back to my office in a week, I will give it a try. If I run
into any problems, is there a way that I can ask a follow up question?
Rod

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

1. For safety: make a copy of your original unsynched notebooks.
2. Install Onenote on the new computer
3. Look under Tools --> Options --> Save for the Location of the so
called CACHE file. This directory will be the target for the recovery of
your unsynched changes.
4. Search on your old harddrive (the place depends on your OS and your
account) for the Onenote Cache file OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache
There your offline changes are stored.
5. Close your new Onenote.
6. Now copy the OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache to the target directory
mentioned above.

When doing this step, you also need to make sure to copy the
OneNoteOfflineCache_Files folder.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I am going back to my office in a week, I will give it a try. If I run
into any problems, is there a way that I can ask a follow up question?

Just continue in this therad.

Rainald