Aug 11 2017 09:01 AM
I'm attempting to educate our users on the appropriate use of SharePoint and OneDrive. There are a lot of users that would like to move OneNote notebooks from their OneDrive to a SharePoint site. I'm attempting to do this using the "copy to" function on the web. It appears to work great, however upon copying the file it breaks the OneNote notebook up into multiple files and puts them in a folder. Any idea why this is happening? I've seen this happen when moving the location via OneNote as well. I've had to resort to having users create a new OneNote and copy sections into it. This can be painful. Having multiple files doesn't seem to affect the functionality of the Notebook, however it's confusion every user that attempts it. Any ideas?
Aug 11 2017 08:11 PM
Aug 13 2017 09:08 AM
I agree with @Loryan Strant - I advise our users to first create a new notebook in the location where they want it and then use the OneNote desktop client to move sections from the old notebook to the new one.
I've seen numerous issues when people use pretty much any other means to try to move a notebook (Explorer View; drag and drop upload into a browser window; etc.).
Aug 19 2017 05:49 AM
Aug 19 2017 05:49 AM
I tend to do the same as what Kelly has suggested.
@Deleted wrote:I advise our users to first create a new notebook in the location where they want it and then use the OneNote desktop client to move sections from the old notebook to the new one.
Aug 26 2017 11:00 AM
I recommend you turn off Auto-Sync before copying large numbers of sections from one notebook to another. When you're all done, turn auto-sync back on and leave things alone until OneNote finishes updating. This will prevent OneNote trying to sync moving targets while you are moving the sections from one notebook to another.
Also, after turning off auto-sync, if you have a large number of sections to move, it is helpful to add Section Groups to the old notebook, and move all of the sections under the Section Groups. You can them move entire Section Groups from the old notebook to the new, as opposed to having to move them one at a time, since there is no <CTRL>Click to allow the selection of multiple sections to move all at once.
Feb 09 2018 06:50 AM - edited Feb 09 2018 06:50 AM
I think I've managed to find a way of achieving this. You can take two approaches:
Approach 1: Click on the three dots on the OneNote file in the list of documents on you OneDrive and select 'Copy to', then browse to the destination, which can be either a different location on you OneDrive or a SharePoint document library.
Note: I would always suggest using the 'Copy to' option rather than 'Move to'
Approach 2:
The file in the location will appear as a normal NoteBook.
Feb 15 2018 06:53 AM
I see a lot of suggestions here about copying OneNote files, when I believe the original question was moving a OneNote file from OneDrive to SharePoint. If that is the case, my suggestion is to use the Change Location function in the OneNote desktop app. Now I know some of you may not use the full blown version of the app, but I highly recommend you do because the full feature set is only available in the desktop app. Use the 2016 version if you can as well.
Continuing on with the move steps...
IMPORTANT NOTE: When placing a OneNote notebook on SharePoint, it's assumed you will be sharing the notebook with others. If so, there are two important things to remember:
Hope this makes sense and that it addresses your question.
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