OneNote disappeard from Vista Search locations JuergenS 10/26/2008 9:21:01 PM After performing a System Restore or Complete Backup Restore the search index in Vista Search (4.0) does not contain Outlook or OneNote as "Included Location" in the "Indexing Options". Outlook shows up after the first time it gets started. Unfortunatly this is no the case for OneNote. This results in reducing the OneNote search capabilty on the current page rather than all notebooks. Is there any procedure to get OneNote into the index again? A OneNote "repair" does not fix the issue. (Verified on 2 different systems w/ Vista Ultimate SP1 and OneNote 2007 SP1)

Re: OneNote disappeard from Vista Search locations "Rainald Taesler" <taesler[ at ]gmx.de> 10/27/2008 12:19:58 AM JuergenS wrote: [Quoted Text] > After performing a System Restore or Complete Backup Restore the > search index in Vista Search (4.0) does not contain Outlook or > OneNote as "Included Location" in the "Indexing Options". > Outlook shows up after the first time it gets started. Unfortunatly > this is no the case for OneNote. This results in reducing the > OneNote search capabilty on the current page rather than all > notebooks. > Is there any procedure to get OneNote into the index again? > A OneNote "repair" does not fix the issue. > (Verified on 2 different systems w/ Vista Ultimate SP1 and OneNote > 2007 SP1) In the past I had this problem too, several times. It went away like magic. Did you kill the Index completely? IIRC the problem was cured on my machines by forcing the Indexer to recreate the Index from scratch, stopping the Indexing and then setting the locations to be indexed anew. Gruß vom Neckarstrand Rainald

Re: OneNote disappeard from Vista Search locations JuergenS 10/27/2008 11:50:01 PM "Rainald Taesler" wrote: [Quoted Text] > In the past I had this problem too, several times. > It went away like magic. > > Did you kill the Index completely? > > IIRC the problem was cured on my machines by forcing the Indexer to > recreate the Index from scratch, stopping the Indexing and then setting > the locations to be indexed anew. > > Gruß vom Neckarstrand > Rainald > > Thanks for your assistance. It pointed me into the right direction. The solution is to have at least one folder w/ a notebook (.one file) configured as a search location (which usally is not the case on my systems). After the indexer has seen this notebook it creates the generic "Microsoft Office OneNote" location entry and indexes all notebooks opened in OneNote no matter where they are stored. You can actually remove the folder mentioned above from the search locations. This behavior feels a bit weird - but ok, now as I know how it works it allows me to use "Complete PC Restore" w/o loosing important search functionality. Grüße von der Ruhr Jürgen

Re: OneNote disappeard from Vista Search locations "Rainald Taesler" <taesler[ at ]gmx.de> 10/30/2008 1:34:18 AM Thanks fro your valuable feedback, Jürgen! JuergenS wrote: [Quoted Text] >> In the past I had this problem too, several times. >> It went away like magic. >> >> Did you kill the Index completely? >> >> IIRC the problem was cured on my machines by forcing the Indexer to >> recreate the Index from scratch, stopping the Indexing and then >> setting the locations to be indexed anew. >> > Thanks for your assistance. It pointed me into the right direction. Glad to hear that I could contribute a bit. > The solution is to have at least one folder w/ a notebook (.one > file) configured as a search location (which usally is not the case > on my systems). After the indexer has seen this notebook it creates > the generic "Microsoft Office OneNote" location entry and indexes > all notebooks opened in OneNote no matter where they are stored. > You can actually remove the folder mentioned above from the search > locations. Most interesting! I would have never thought of that, especially as my "OneNote notebooks" directory is sitting on my data-partition (where I have all my data files of any sort). > This behavior feels a bit weird - but ok, now as I know how it > works it allows me to use "Complete PC Restore" w/o loosing > important search functionality. That's one of the OS' features I hardly ever used. I'm doing my backups with Acronis True Image and I'm very happy with it. Even the new things in Vista are not to my taste :-( Thanks again, beste Grüße retour and die Ruhr. Rainald