Whole notebook lost!

[Bodger]

I am new to OneNote, worked all day, and at the end (perhaps tired) went to
'File' and clicked on 'Close Notebook', not knowing that this deletes the
whole thing - hours of notes, images, diagrams and all. (It is now nowhere
to be found.) How can I recover that closed notebook?
Very grateful for any help.

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

I am new to OneNote, worked all day, and at the end (perhaps tired) went to
'File' and clicked on 'Close Notebook', not knowing that this deletes the
whole thing - hours of notes, images, diagrams and all. (It is now nowhere
to be found.) How can I recover that closed notebook?

You can re-open the notebook. Go to File->Open->Notebook. Select the
folder that the notebook is contained in, and click open. By default,
your notebooks are stored in "My Documents\OneNote Notebooks".

 

[Bodger]

I am very grateful to you. And, of course, I am an idiot, plunging in to use
a new application without reading the guide notes first.
Very best wishes.

 

[John Waller]

I am new to OneNote, worked all day, and at the end (perhaps tired) went to

'File' and clicked on 'Close Notebook', not knowing that this deletes the
whole thing

Nothing is deleted.

Just re-open the notebook-and leave it open so it appears next time you
launch OneNote. OneNote saves automatically while you work.

Closing a notebook is no different to closing a Word or Excel document.