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OneNote 2016 data files location
Well, I found an answer; sort of.
You have to look in your app list for OneNote 2016, DO NOT just select OneNote from the menu because this is the totally cloud based version. Now I have the ability to select my notebook(s) from the local computer or network share.
I finally found where the files are. Yes in the Onedrive folder their are short-cuts to the notebooks in OneDrive in the cloud, but as someone else said the notebooks are also maintained on a 'hidden' location on your hard drive for offline use.
If you go to the 'File' menu in Onenote 2016, on the top right you'll see an "Open Backups" icon. Click on that and it will show you where the files are stored on your local drive.
In my case they are located at:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneNote\16.0\Backup
...Dale
I created a new folder on a local drive, and put a new notebook there. My hard drive is still thrashing. I guess it might be that its finding all of my old notebooks and trying to make some order out of the disorder. Most common response is "not responding" which keeps coming and going. Perhaps it will settle down at some point. Bottom line though is I want a local notebook with NOTHING relying on Microsoft networking. Apparantly this cannot be done, so the platform is unreliable and subject to changes I have no control over. My disk and the network activity finally stopped, but the interface acts like its running on an Atari or a TRS-80. Clicking on the dropdown shows all the old notebooks, goes "unresponding" and recovers after a minute or so. Click the title bar, "unresponding" for 20 seconds. After all these years, Onenote still is a bloated network denizon. Evernote has its own limitations, but t least they address them fairly rapidlly. Apple does the best networking job, but its products are toys. I'm off to sourceforge.net to look around. We many fund a project...
