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Group: microsoft.public.onenote · Group Profile
Author: dvjamesdvjames Date: Sep 10, 2008 22:01
That's sorta my question. I have copied and pasted folders into the main ON
folder on my thumb drive where the core files are, opened it up on another
computer from the Thumbdrive and had it sync up properly. but this is where
it gets a bit murky for me. I think it has to do with backing up the files
(which can be handled automatically), but how to meld the different backups
together? If the backups are all synced, then good. But if computer three
hasn't synced yet when the Thumbdrive fails, what then? Do you lose data or
once you've put the ON core files back on a thumb drive, does it just accept
that "image" and meld it all together?
This is something I'd rather not experiment with, thus my original questions.
--
Dennis James
"Jonathan" wrote:
> Dennis,
> This right-click option is exactly what I started using to move the ON
> knowledge of "where" the files were. I wrote the post partly because I
> wondered if there was any difference between this method of "moving" to my
> new laptop and the "cut and copy the files" method. So right now it seems
> there is no difference as long as I understand and honor the particular
> ON2007 cache structure.
>
> At the low cost of thumb drives I could imagine throwing any current working
> drive into a safe deposit box if I was over at the bank on any business and
> just starting another one when I went back to my desk. Or would that work?
> it's the same scenario as losing a thumb drive. OneNote has to make a new
> core file from the "satellite" files.
>
> So all I would have to do is copy everything on the drive before putting the
> drive away in storage. Now I realize that a CD-R is just as easy... make that
> from the drive and put that away somewhere out of the house.
>
> Sorry... rambling.
>
> Jonathan
>
> "dvjames" wrote:
>
>>
>> BTW, you can move current ON notebooks to the thumbdrive by right-clicking
>> the notebook in the left column, selecting properties, and changing the
>> location to the thumbdrive. Don't worry in which USB port you stick the
>> drive, ON names the thumbdrives and keeps that info internally so it can ID
>> the drive when you reconnect again.
>> --
>> Dennis James
>>
>>
>> "Jonathan" wrote:
>>
>>>> After a lot of searching here in the forum and in Help files I find nothing
>>>> on exactly this process: I have bought a new laptop and want to move all
>>>> Notebooks and the Untitled material to my new laptop and its OneNote2007.
>>>
>>> Replying to my own post: First, dvjames's excellent post right after mine
>>> today has good questions and suggestions for movable data and folder
>>> structure, and I will absorb that. The safety of the data is part of my OP,
>>> too.
>>>
>>> I read "Share an existing notebook among my computers" from the Help file
>>> and it says I should just take the core files right out of my "OneNote
>>> Notebooks" folder and move them to the thumb drive. Then fire up OneNote on
>>> my new laptop and "show" OneNote the location from which to load its content.
>>> From then on there's no looking back at the old laptop... thay became truly
>>> mobile when I cut them out of Windows Explorer and put them on the thumb
>>> drive.
>>>
>>> Is it that simple? (other than the usability/safety questions raised by
>>> dvjames...)
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
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