Sync status icons and menu choices messed up Mark Lacy 12/19/2008 2:33:02 PM I have a similar problem to one previously reported in this discussion group, but still can not get around it. The only option available to me under File / Sync is Work Offline. Hovering over the sync status icon on the toolbar shows OneNote is connected and synchronizing changes, but the status icon is grayed out. And I no longer see sync status icons on the notebook tabs like I used to. I have reset both the toolbar and the menu bar and nothing has changed. Can anyone help!

Re: Sync status icons and menu choices messed up Ilya Koulchin <ikoulchine[ at ]hotmail.com> 12/22/2008 2:54:26 AM Mark Lacy wrote: [Quoted Text] > The only option available to me under File / Sync is Work Offline. > Hovering over the sync status icon on the toolbar shows OneNote is connected > and synchronizing changes, but the status icon is grayed out. > And I no longer see sync status icons on the notebook tabs like I used to. The sync menu items and the toolbar button will only be enabled if you have any remote notebooks opened (such as notebooks stored on a network share, SharePoint server, or removable USB drives). You can check what path is being used to open the notebook by hovering over the notebook icons.

Re: Sync status icons and menu choices messed up Mark Lacy 12/22/2008 3:02:01 PM Thanks, Ilya, these are remote notebooks on a thumbdrive, so I would expect to see the status icons like I have in the past. Here's some more info that may be relevant. I recently started using the open source program TrueCrypt to encrypt the folder on the thumbdrive that contains my OneNote notebooks. When I type in the decryption key, TrueCrypt mounts the folder as a virtual drive. I can get to my notebooks just fine, and they appear to be sync-ing okay (even if the statu icons aren't visible). When I hover over the notebook name on the tab, the correct location is shown (the virtual drive). Could the lack of sync status icons on the notebook tabs (and the graying out of the sync status icon in the toolbar) be because OneNote doesn't realize it's sync-ing with a remote notebook, because the remote notebooks are now on a virtual drive that appears to OneNote to be local rather than remote? "Ilya Koulchin" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Mark Lacy wrote: > > The only option available to me under File / Sync is Work Offline. > > Hovering over the sync status icon on the toolbar shows OneNote is connected > > and synchronizing changes, but the status icon is grayed out. > > And I no longer see sync status icons on the notebook tabs like I used to. > > The sync menu items and the toolbar button will only be enabled if you > have any remote notebooks opened (such as notebooks stored on a network > share, SharePoint server, or removable USB drives). You can check what > path is being used to open the notebook by hovering over the notebook icons. >

Re: Sync status icons and menu choices messed up Ilya Koulchin <ikoulchine[ at ]hotmail.com> 12/23/2008 5:51:45 AM If TrueCrypt is creating a new virtual drive, that could very well be masking the fact that it's removable. Even then, though, OneNote should work just fine. The one possible caveat is if you have multiple drives that you use in this way: if you open some notebooks from one drive, then replace it with the other and it is assigned the same drive letter, OneNote might end up thinking that your notebooks were deleted and close them. If that happens, just plug the other drive back in and re-open the notebooks and you'll be good to go again. Mark Lacy wrote: [Quoted Text] > Thanks, Ilya, these are remote notebooks on a thumbdrive, so I would expect > to see the status icons like I have in the past. Here's some more info that > may be relevant. > > I recently started using the open source program TrueCrypt to encrypt the > folder on the thumbdrive that contains my OneNote notebooks. When I type in > the decryption key, TrueCrypt mounts the folder as a virtual drive. I can > get to my notebooks just fine, and they appear to be sync-ing okay (even if > the statu icons aren't visible). When I hover over the notebook name on the > tab, the correct location is shown (the virtual drive). > > Could the lack of sync status icons on the notebook tabs (and the graying > out of the sync status icon in the toolbar) be because OneNote doesn't > realize it's sync-ing with a remote notebook, because the remote notebooks > are now on a virtual drive that appears to OneNote to be local rather than > remote? > > "Ilya Koulchin" wrote: > >> Mark Lacy wrote: >>> The only option available to me under File / Sync is Work Offline. >>> Hovering over the sync status icon on the toolbar shows OneNote is connected >>> and synchronizing changes, but the status icon is grayed out. >>> And I no longer see sync status icons on the notebook tabs like I used to. >> The sync menu items and the toolbar button will only be enabled if you >> have any remote notebooks opened (such as notebooks stored on a network >> share, SharePoint server, or removable USB drives). You can check what >> path is being used to open the notebook by hovering over the notebook icons. >>