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khawaja_Wasim
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Jul 10, 2020
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OneNote backup Restoring Issue

Dear Community, When I switched to Windows 10, all data of MS OneNote gone, though I saved the full Backup through >File >export before installation, then after installing the windows 10, and the M...
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    Allan_Clarke
    Jul 15, 2020

    khawaja_Wasim - Were you not storing your OneNote data on OneDrive? (which is its usual default) If you were then you would simply open OneNote (post install) & then just open the Notebook. The data would have been refreshed from OneDrive where it would have been syncing to. Even if you had been saving your data locally (i.e. C:/...) you would only need to open the notebook, not restore!

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Allan_Clarke
Iron Contributor
Jul 15, 2020

khawaja_Wasim - Were you not storing your OneNote data on OneDrive? (which is its usual default) If you were then you would simply open OneNote (post install) & then just open the Notebook. The data would have been refreshed from OneDrive where it would have been syncing to. Even if you had been saving your data locally (i.e. C:/...) you would only need to open the notebook, not restore!

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    khawaja_Wasim
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 16, 2020

    Allan_Clarke 

    Dear Mr. Allan Clark,

    Thanking you for the reply. 

    Isn't there any solution to restore the previous files? Next I'll sync the files to Onedrive.

    Thanking you

    Khawaja Wasim

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