Unfortunately, I believe the pages are gone, baby, gone.
OneNote was operated from my laptop, which has had problems since I
reformatted it and reinstalled Vista back in August. Somehow, after the
reinstall, my notebook for this semester was unsynchronized, so the backups I
made only had the first 2 weeks of material. I designated the My Documents
folder for my OneNote Notebooks Folder. So when I did my manual backup
copies, it only took the 2 week copies, not the unsynchronized notebooks with
all of my data. I'm guessing that OneNote stored that somewhere else (maybe
under backups?).
I even searched OneNote's backups under
AppData/Local/Microsfoft/OneNote/12.0/Backup, and those copies were also
corrupted.
There is a specific date range in my pages which are missing. That seems to
be the only pattern in my lost data.
The only thing I can think of that might have affected my data was I
defragged my computer on Sunday. Other than that, I have no idea what could
have caused my data loss.
I'm pretty bummed out right now.
"Erik Sojka (MVP)" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > There is no automated archive or purge, so it's not normal for pages to
> disappear. If OneNote was not connected to the source of the Notebook,
> that shouldn't cause data to disappear. OneNote will work from its local
> cached copy until it can reconnect and sync its changes.
>
> Was there a pattern you can detect to what was contained in those missing
> pages? Were they all about the same topic or created at the same time? Is
> it possible that they were moved? Have you done a last-ditch search for
> words which you know were in those missing pages?
>
> Where was the Notebook stored? If it was on a server at your company or
> school, is there any chance you can request a restore?
>
> Otherweise, I hate to be the bearer of bad news - if the pages did
> disappear and are not found in the available backups, there's not much to
> be done ;(
>
> =?Utf-8?B?RGVwcmVzc2VkIFBhdWw=?= <Depressed
> Paul[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> news:731BF949-8DA3-46E1-9730-336DF1B73703[ at ]microsoft.com:
>
> > This last week, I had two months worth of pages go missing on six
> > separate tabs. I tried to restore it, but the 2 days worth of backups
> > contained the same error. Is there any other way to recover my lost
> > data? It's not in my main OneNote folder either. Only thing I can
> > think of is my notebook was "not connected" but it had not been a
> > problem until this week.
> >
> > I desperately need my notes for finals next week. Any help would be
> > appreciated.
> >
>
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