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1Ai_Li1
Copper Contributor
Feb 19, 2020
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Help me please!

PLEASE HELP! I am somewhat of a compulsive worrier, I tend to worry a lot about things happening to my notes, I've been using this software for about a year now because half my google docs were myster...
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    Allan_Clarke
    Feb 26, 2020

    1Ai_Li1- If you were using OneNote 2016 there was an option to back up just in case you had issues. If you can open OneNote, got to File/Options & look for "Save & Back Up". If your OneNote was being backed up you'll see the file path to the backup location. If you cant do that, try searching File Explorer for OneNote in or around C://....../AppData/Local/Microsoft/OneNote

     

    You might be lucky and find a back up file which you can use to recover.

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Allan_Clarke
Iron Contributor
Feb 26, 2020

1Ai_Li1- If you were using OneNote 2016 there was an option to back up just in case you had issues. If you can open OneNote, got to File/Options & look for "Save & Back Up". If your OneNote was being backed up you'll see the file path to the backup location. If you cant do that, try searching File Explorer for OneNote in or around C://....../AppData/Local/Microsoft/OneNote

 

You might be lucky and find a back up file which you can use to recover.

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    1Ai_Li1
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 17, 2020
    I was using the app.