Reinstalled Windows XP, now some notebook sections are blank

[Richard Winter]

Hi all

I recently reinstalled Windows XP. and OneNote is behaving strangely. I kept
all my .one files in their own directory on the root drive, not in My
Documents etc.

Now, when I open certain notebooks, some of the sections are blank, and only
contain a single untitled page. There is an awful lot of work in these
missing sections and I'm getting worried. The same happens when I try to open
the various backups I have. What is the size of a blank .one section?

Any clues as to what might be causing this? Are .one files ever hidden (ie,
maybe I'm opening the wrong ones)?

I would be eternally grateful if someone could shed some light on this matter

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

Can you confirm that the paths to the re-opened-on-the-new-computer
Notebooks are the same as what you see in Windows Explorer? For each
Notebook in OneNote, right-click on the Notebook header, and select
"Properties" from the context menu. At the top of the property sheet is a
field called "Path".

A new blank Section (*.ONE) file should be roughly 9k in size. If these
files are larger, then they should contain data.

How are you opening these Notebooks? Easiest way is to navigate to its
location in Windows Explorer, right-clicking on the folder which
corresponds to the Notebook, and selecting "Open as Notebook in OneNote".



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[Richard Winter]

Hi Erik, thank you for the reply.

The OneNote and Explorer paths match up. All the missing sections are larger
than 9k. The strange thing is that the first section of each notebook seems
to be okay, it's just the subsequent ones that show up as blank.

I initially opened the notebooks by starting OneNote, selecting "File" and
then "Open", and navigating to the files in question.

The majority of what I've lost is text (ie very few links or images) - is
there any way to extract that from the .one files? I've tried WordPad, but it
just comes out scrambled.