Restoring Notebook backups

[Amste]

Hi,
I am working as a technician at a school. All students use OneNote for their
various subjects. Each section is their class containing their notes. Since
they use these notes for the whole year we often have to restore the backups
for the students. However, once restored, there are no sections. Is there an
easy/fast method to restore the notebook to it's original state?
Thanks in advance

 

[YouBetcha]

Is the "backup" one of the OneNote (2007) backups or are you describing an
"undelete" method? If you are copying a OneNote backup or undeleting
something on the drive, make sure you have all the subdirectories. Start
with the first drive directory inside the OneNote Notebooks directory on the
drive -- this directory is the "notebook" and any files in it are sections;
subdirectories of the "notebook" directory are section groups, files inside
that are nested sections, etc.

OneNote 2003 had a somewhat different structure, but similar enough in
concept.

 

[Amste]

Sorry, the backup I am referring to is the automatic backup that OneNote
performs on a regular basis (not sure as to the frequency), not an undelete
method. The students have come to us advising they have lost all their
OneNote files, we have found them in the backup & are looking for a fast
method to restore the whole thing, as they still need them.
My apologies for the vague details but I will be honest & say I have never
worked with OneNote so I appreciate your detailed breakdown of the
directories.
Thanks for your help!

 

[SiD (gmail account)]

How did they lost their files?

Backups are not complete but are made just for the last modified
files.

 

[Amste]

I believe there is an automatic backup feature in OneNote that backs up their
files but when it does the files no longer appear in their regular location.
We have found them in the backup folder & they can no longer open the
complete file and are forced to open one subject at a time whereas they had
all folders in their notebook along with its sections & pages.

How did they lost their files?

Backups are not complete but are made just for the last modified
files.

Sorry, the backup I am referring to is the automatic backup that OneNote
performs on a regular basis (not sure as to the frequency), not an undelete
method. The students have come to us advising they have lost all their
OneNote files, we have found them in the backup & are looking for a fast
method to restore the whole thing, as they still need them.
My apologies for the vague details but I will be honest & say I have never
worked with OneNote so I appreciate your detailed breakdown of the
directories.
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[YouBetcha]

If they lose an entire notebook, and go to "file" "open backup" then they can
fairly quickly restore their notebooks, but at most "section group" at a
time. If there are multiple sections to restore in any one directory you can
hold down the shift key in the "open backup" dialog box and select all the
sections you want and restore them all at once. this might speed things up a
bit. But it should be a fairly clean restore of the sections and pages, etc.

But you shouldn't have to "find" the backup directory, the "open backup"
dialog should open right up to where the backups are.

Hope this works!

I believe there is an automatic backup feature in OneNote that backs up their
files but when it does the files no longer appear in their regular location.
We have found them in the backup folder & they can no longer open the
complete file and are forced to open one subject at a time whereas they had
all folders in their notebook along with its sections & pages.

How did they lost their files?

Backups are not complete but are made just for the last modified
files.

Sorry, the backup I am referring to is the automatic backup that OneNote
performs on a regular basis (not sure as to the frequency), not an undelete
method. The students have come to us advising they have lost all their
OneNote files, we have found them in the backup & are looking for a fast
method to restore the whole thing, as they still need them.
My apologies for the vague details but I will be honest & say I have never
worked with OneNote so I appreciate your detailed breakdown of the
directories.
[cut]

 

[SiD (gmail account)]

If they lose an entire notebook, and go to "file" "open backup" then they can
fairly quickly restore their notebooks, but at most "section group" at a
time. If there are multiple sections to restore in any one directory you can
hold down the shift key in the "open backup" dialog box and select all the
sections you want and restore them all at once. this might speed things up a
bit. But it should be a fairly clean restore of the sections and pages, etc.

But you shouldn't have to "find" the backup directory, the "open backup"
dialog should open right up to where the backups are.

Hope this works!

I believe there is an automatic backup feature in OneNote that backs up their
files but when it does the files no longer appear in their regular location.
We have found them in the backup folder & they can no longer open the
complete file and are forced to open one subject at a time whereas they had
all folders in their notebook along with its sections & pages.

How did they lost their files?
Backups are not complete but are made just for the last modified
files.
Sorry, the backup I am referring to is the automatic backup that OneNote
performs on a regular basis (not sure as to the frequency), not an undelete
method. The students have come to us advising they have lost all their
OneNote files, we have found them in the backup & are looking for a fast
method to restore the whole thing, as they still need them.
My apologies for the vague details but I will be honest & say I have never
worked with OneNote so I appreciate your detailed breakdown of the
directories.
[cut]

Actually from Tools>Options>Backup you can change the backup frequency
and how many backups to keep.
From Tools>Options>Save you can edit the backup location.
Copying the .one files in the notebook folder will quickly add those
sections to the notebooks. You might create a small script for this.
Backups are marked with a postfix in the filename with a sort of
timestamp. The script should consider this.

Explaining how they lost their notebooks would help finding a good
solution.

 

[Bill]

when I restore that way I only get a read -only file and cannot work with it.
I check open not the open read-only option

If they lose an entire notebook, and go to "file" "open backup" then they can
fairly quickly restore their notebooks, but at most "section group" at a
time. If there are multiple sections to restore in any one directory you can
hold down the shift key in the "open backup" dialog box and select all the
sections you want and restore them all at once. this might speed things up a
bit. But it should be a fairly clean restore of the sections and pages, etc.

But you shouldn't have to "find" the backup directory, the "open backup"
dialog should open right up to where the backups are.

Hope this works!

I believe there is an automatic backup feature in OneNote that backs up their
files but when it does the files no longer appear in their regular location.
We have found them in the backup folder & they can no longer open the
complete file and are forced to open one subject at a time whereas they had
all folders in their notebook along with its sections & pages.

"SiD (gmail account)" wrote:

How did they lost their files?

Backups are not complete but are made just for the last modified
files.

Sorry, the backup I am referring to is the automatic backup that OneNote
performs on a regular basis (not sure as to the frequency), not an undelete
method. The students have come to us advising they have lost all their
OneNote files, we have found them in the backup & are looking for a fast
method to restore the whole thing, as they still need them.
My apologies for the vague details but I will be honest & say I have never
worked with OneNote so I appreciate your detailed breakdown of the
directories.
[cut]

Actually from Tools>Options>Backup you can change the backup frequency
and how many backups to keep.
From Tools>Options>Save you can edit the backup location.
Copying the .one files in the notebook folder will quickly add those
sections to the notebooks. You might create a small script for this.
Backups are marked with a postfix in the filename with a sort of
timestamp. The script should consider this.

Explaining how they lost their notebooks would help finding a good
solution.