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Migrating Notebooks to Phone App in bulk
I have multiple notebooks that I originally created on my laptop. I have since switched to working almost exclusively from my phone using the OneNote Android app. However I still have most of my notebooks on the laptop and of course in One Drive. When I view all notebooks in the app, I can see all of my previously created notebooks no problem, but they are all gray and not stored locally on my phone. When I am in the field and want to reference an old note (a daily occurrence) I have to click on the grayed-out notebook, download it, and then open it. It's mildly cumbersome and uses data. I would prefer to get on a wifi connection and download them all to my phone in one shot, but all I can figure out is how to do that one at a time. Is there a way to select all my notebooks and download them all at once?
When I'm on the "Notebooks" screen, I see all my locally stored notebooks and then an option to see "more notebooks." Clicking on "more notebooks" takes me to the screen that shows all my cloud-stored notebooks, which are the ones I want to mass-migrate to the phone. Hitting "sync all" back on the original Notebooks screen does not accomplish this.
ScottH89 wrote:I have multiple notebooks that I originally created on my laptop. I have since switched to working almost exclusively from my phone using the OneNote Android app. However I still have most of my notebooks on the laptop and of course in One Drive. When I view all notebooks in the app, I can see all of my previously created notebooks no problem, but they are all gray and not stored locally on my phone. When I am in the field and want to reference an old note (a daily occurrence) I have to click on the grayed-out notebook, download it, and then open it. It's mildly cumbersome and uses data. I would prefer to get on a wifi connection and download them all to my phone in one shot, but all I can figure out is how to do that one at a time. Is there a way to select all my notebooks and download them all at once?
When I'm on the "Notebooks" screen, I see all my locally stored notebooks and then an option to see "more notebooks." Clicking on "more notebooks" takes me to the screen that shows all my cloud-stored notebooks, which are the ones I want to mass-migrate to the phone. Hitting "sync all" back on the original Notebooks screen does not accomplish this.
ScottH89- To get all of your Notebooks on to your phone they need to be stored on OneDrive. The Android App doesn't support local files & relies on the data being available in the cloud.
