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OneNote 2016 data files location
I do not understand what the "backstage (File Menu)" means.
I am not sure how to do that.
thank you - I appreciate your time
Click on the first menu to the left (File): what you see now is the "backstage".
The first choice at the top of the left bar is Information: there you will see the notebooks and their location. :-)
I'm confused by the reference to File menu. The only items on the menu line are Home-Insert-Draw-View. Must be missing something? Thanks!
I also only have Home-Insert-Draw & View menus in the top toolbar?
I have been using OneNote for many years but now when I open OneNote 2016 I am forced to login with a MS account. Why? I can store my Excel and Word files wherever I want and has always been the same with OneNote. On our large network external accounts are not permitted so in its current state I will have to tell the entire organization that the OneNote files they have been building for years are now unusable?????
Bob,
I am with you 100%. Microsoft's network startegy has destroyed one if its best products, and now it seems to be infecting Word. I go back to my old notebooks. The most common response I get is "not responding". Of course networking is 100x faster than when I built these notebooks, so it does not last long, but it just shouldn't be a problem, and I have have total control. If I want my notebook on a USB drive or an SD card I should be able to put it there, and I should know where it is. Yes, I use dropbox a lot, and synchronize about 10 machines. No issues, fast, always works. Then there's Microsoft. We switched to Apple for a couple of years and that was a mistake. They have the network figured out but things like "save as" are an anomoly. Linux is like the old west.
It shows that the data files are on oneDrive.
How do I get them on my own hard drive and to sync with the cloud-based files like I configured in the options of OneDrive?
OneNote sync mechanism is different from usual OneDrive sync mechanism, so you should not save directly notebooks to the local sinc folder.
You can find the correct procedure here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Move-a-OneNote-2016-for-Windows-notebook-to-OneDrive-8b8c5a16-1d75-4637-9299-d3d22e54d5a6?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
And this blog article explains some of the details: https://bealers.com/2016/11/15/onenote-sync-onedrive/
Hope it helps...
I do not want my onenote files on OneDrive or any other drive that is not on my Surface Pro 4. How do I get my files only on the surface?
