How can I retrieve an older version of my onenote notebook? I am pretty sure that mesh had a copy of it at some point (unless Mesh didn't sync with my laptop for a day). Right now both my laptop and my desktop have the onenote notebook from ~ 3 days ago. I took some notes on my tablet in class this week, and the pages were there on Wednesday and Thursday. They disappeared Friday morning, but reappeared that afternoon. (This is all on my laptop) No changes were made to that onenote notebook from my desktop, although it was one of three notebooks loaded. I did run ON a few times from my desktop, but never altered the notebook with missing pages.
This is really frustrating. I wish Mesh would refrain from making any files smaller without keeping a shadow copy around somewhere.
I personally would not use Live Mesh to sync a OneNote notebook. If the file is open on one PC and you change it on another PC, it is locked on the first PC, so the changes cannot be written to that PC. Once OneNote is closed, it can update the file. However, if you change the file in both location, it creates a conflict. I would not expect the older version to be overwritten, but depending on file timestamps, this can certainly happen since notebooks are dynamic. If you want to sync your OneNote notebook, perhaps a safer solution would be to copy the notebook to another folder manually when you wish to send a sync copy to the cloud and other devices. Then, on the other devices, copy that notebook into the notebook folder to overwrite the older one. This should not be an issue with Office 12 once they enable the cloud capabilities of Office Live, which I believe will allow the server copy of the notebook to be stored on Office Live and all local notebooks willl sync with the cloud. What I do is keep my OneNote Notebook on a PC at home that is always on. It is shared to all PCs. If I make a change on a PC when it is not connected to my LAN, it will update when I next connect and those changes reflect on all connected PCs. If I change the notebook on two PCs, OneNote handles the conflict and allows me to choose what to keep/discard or manually copy to the primary "server" notebook. -steve~ Microsoft MVP Windows Live ~ Windows Live OneCare| Live Mesh|MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator ~
Update: Mesh is really bizarre. It updated the affected notebook again and my two pages returned on my laptop. No change on the desktop. I was doing some studying and a different notebook had pages go missing on the laptop. Those pages weren't as mission critical, so I cut my losses and killed the mesh client on both machines. I've got an exam coming up on Tuesday and don't have the time to figure out what went wrong and how to rectify it.
I personally would not use Live Mesh to sync a OneNote notebook. If the file is open on one PC and you change it on another PC, it is locked on the first PC, so the changes cannot be written to that PC. Once OneNote is closed, it can update the file. However, if you change the file in both location, it creates a conflict. I would not expect the older version to be overwritten, but depending on file timestamps, this can certainly happen since notebooks are dynamic. If you want to sync your OneNote notebook, perhaps a safer solution would be to copy the notebook to another folder manually when you wish to send a sync copy to the cloud and other devices. Then, on the other devices, copy that notebook into the notebook folder to overwrite the older one. This should not be an issue with Office 12 once they enable the cloud capabilities of Office Live, which I believe will allow the server copy of the notebook to be stored on Office Live and all local notebooks willl sync with the cloud. What I do is keep my OneNote Notebook on a PC at home that is always on. It is shared to all PCs. If I make a change on a PC when it is not connected to my LAN, it will update when I next connect and those changes reflect on all connected PCs. If I change the notebook on two PCs, OneNote handles the conflict and allows me to choose what to keep/discard or manually copy to the primary "server" notebook. -steve~ Microsoft MVP Windows Live ~ Windows Live OneCare| Live Mesh|MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator ~
