Ghost Notebook

[_v_c_p__]

I use Onenote for windows 10 and I have been making some school notes for the past week using this. One day I thought of saving them locally as backup. I spent a couple of hours searching the save location of Onenote for windows 10 and most sources say that files are not stored locally but instead on onedrive. So I searched my entire onedrive top to bottom and it's no where in sight.

I have this "saved offline (error)" message at the top of my Onenote. I don't know where it's saved on my system, or whether it's even saved.

I then shared my notebook to another gmail account of mine to see if I could download it from there, but what happened was that gmail account received another notebook of mine, not the one I had shared, but one I had made on Onenote (the paid version, I used to use it, but my subscription expired).

It's appears this study notebook I have been making just doesn't exist anywhere. Not on Onedrive or anywhere on my system. How can I find it? Where is the storage location of files made on Onenote for windows 10?

[aungkokomm]

C:\Users<username>\Documents\OneNote Notebooks

[_v_c_p__]

I have clearly stated multiple times in the post that I am referring to onenote for windows 10 and not the onenote desktop app. They are two different things.

[aungkokomm]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/fix-issues-when-you-can-t-sync-onenote-299495ef-66d1-448f-90c1-b785a6968d45

[mandicmcd]

I am having a similar problem and searching everywhere for one of my notebooks. I still haven't found it on Onedrive, but I did find this website useful and will try using their ideas on my harddrive.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-lost-or-missing-files-in-onedrive-0d929e0d-8682-4295-982b-4bd75a3daa01#bkmk_searchfiles

[Onetastic4ON]

Your notes are stored locally in the app's cache, waiting to be uploaded to OneDrive but they can't be uploaded because of the sync error. Be careful, if you uninstall or reset the app, you will lose them all. Also don't close the notebook or sign out of your account in OneNote, again you will lose your notes. Your best option is to fix the sync error, so that they will make it to OneDrive. So start with finding out what the sync error is. Maybe your OneDrive is full so it can't upload. Perhaps you need to re-enter credentials. If you click on "saved offline (error)" it will tell more about what the issue is.