We Can 39;t Open This File From Onenote But Can Download A Copy
Deena Lavene
If you want to use an InternetShortcut you must use the "onenote:https:/..." part of the link as stated in the answer by GollyJer but you also have to have "IDList=" - at least that worked for me. Otherwise you might open the wrong page in OneNote.
On April 9, 2019, Microsoft identified a code issue that allowed locally stored OneNote notebooks to be imported and edited in OneNote for Windows 10 without connecting the notebook to the cloud. In this unsupported state, a user's changes to the notebook are stored only in the OneNote cache. The cache will be lost if the user uninstalls OneNote for Windows 10. In OneNote versions prior to 16.0.11601.20066.0, opening an older version of the local notebook will cause more recent changes in the cache to be lost.
After about 15 minutes of Jose looking around, I suggested that we look at Nirsoft (owned by Microsoft) to find an app that would show all files open by open processes. Jose had no idea what I was talking about so, after wresting control of the mouse from him, I went to NirSoft where I found OpendedFilesView Opens a new windowand ProcessActivityView Opens a new windowwhich allowed me to find the hole that OneNote for Windows had hidden my notes in - C:\Users\kittenofd00m\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Office.OneNote_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\AppData\Local\OneNote\16.0\cache
I did just find this (posted November 4, 2019) Microsoft Brings OneNote 2016 Back from the Dead Opens a new windowso maybe there is hope for the desktop version yet. I know OneNote 2016 was and still is better than OneNote for Windows - AND ONENOTE 2016 Opens a new window DOES BACKUPS!!!!
I would really, really appreciate anything that Gregory could do. If I can get this fixed, I am going back to OneNote for desktop, especially since it looks like Microsoft may have done a 180 and will be developing it going forward according to Paul Thurrott's article Microsoft Brings OneNote 2016 Back from the Dead Opens a new window - at least I'd have a local backup then.
I just got off the phone with Microsoft Office support for the second time. The rep took over my PC again and finally decided that a Level 2 technician needs to look at this. He set up a call from a Level 2 technician for between 9 am and 11 am in the morning.
We'd never accept this from any other vendor for any hardware and software product we use but somehow we accept it from one of the most important vendors... We entrust entire OS's to them... Something is wrong with that picture, isn't it?
The implied contract from Microsoft was "You can trust us with your notes." Obviously that is turning out to be not true in the case of OneNote for Windows (aka OneNote Web, aka OneNote). It is this breach of trust that has people concerned about OneNote, and rightfully so.
This is the first time I've heard of it here and I simply asked if there were other reports I hadn't heard of. Your response is unprofessional. Looking at the links that you provided, let's break this down.
First link: 3 total people having an issue from over a year ago, 32 total comments.
Second link: 2 total people having issues, 2 total replies, 1 link to a Microsoft community post which they also created, which had 1 total reply.
For your google search result, those are all one offs that are over 2 years old. Again, there's no pandemic here of dozens or hundreds people experiencing a major data loss.
That's a small handful of people given the size of the OneNote ecosystem, some of which did things like turn off wifi in the middle of their sync. Some using Mac, some using office 2010.
If you had a huge dataloss bug worthy of running for the hills, you would have hundreds people chiming into to those reddit threads.
Look at the dates in the search results.
None of that means that you didn't have a legitimate issue. It is just not a common one.
Does this work all the time?
Nope, you still have to take into consideration the fact that various versions are out there. If you have multiple versions of OneNote you might know that not all versions are compatible. You will encounter the most issues when opening 2010/2013 versions in OneNote 2007.
I just got a new laptop and I use dropbox (this is obligatory, as I have a subscription that I pay for). With my last pc I had onenote-notes in a dropbox folder, so that they were safe in the cloud. Path like c://user/name/dropbox/onenote/name_notebook. And I have used onenote for ages and have A LOT of data in about 10 notebooks. I use it all the time, I need it on my new laptop!!!
If I can't transfer/copy the onenote notebooks to onedrive please advise how I transfer them onto the new laptop in/with dropbox - I don't get the structure. I know that I can change the path and that I can export but the export. But when I export one notebook into onepkg-file and I click on it on the new pc nothing happens (can't be read, search for app, nothing).
We use OneNote internally for team collaboration on projects. Desktop OneNote is the version that offers all available features while the web app just offers a subset of that functionality, so for serious users that "live" in OneNote, the desktop version is the only option. We want to add hyperlinks to project tasks that directly open the relevant OneNote sections/pages we have set up for the task in desktop OneNote. I also mentioned a use case for external use with clients where it is preferable to have the hyperlink open the OneNote web app. Hope this explanation helps...
In your workaround above, are you copying a page from OneNote and pasting into Smartsheet? And, when you paste into Notepad, you have 2 ++ signs...what does that mean? I am trying the workaround, however confused on the workflow direction. Can you enlighten me? Thanks.
If Hook can create a link that would be ideal. But if not and it can create a Hook link from the URL on the clipboard that was added manually to the clipboard that would still be really useful. With the Hook link when opened goes to the page in OneNote Mac app, as Safari does when it opens the URL.
In Keyboard Maestro, I've been able to create the bookmark with a working URL to a OneNote page, but not without manually pasting the hyperlink into TextWrangler, which fortunately pastes as the URL, not the hyperlink. (So now I can see the underlying URL.) I then copy that URL from TextWrangler, manually place the URL in a KM action, then use the actions to condition the URL for a bookmark file, and create the file.
Originally I had both MS Onenote 2007 and 2014 installed on this computer. At first the hyperlink opened OneNote 2007. So I deleted that older version and now the hyperlink only opens a web browser. Do you have any suggestions as to what system settings I can change to make my hyperlink open the OneNote program?
As to the actual link itself and removing onenote from the link. When we paste the URL into the SharePoint web address field it will begin with onenote: the rest of the URL. If we leave the onenote: in the URL, we receive an error telling us it is an invalid URL. So we have to take onenote: out of the URL and it passes the error check.
As much as I hate to say it, I may have to start using OneNote instead of Notability. (Argh). OneNote DOES support deep linking, and these links can be accessed and opened locally from inside DEVONthink:
Relevant to all of this, I wonder if people have seen the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking that appeared recently, spearheaded by Angel Vu (PDFpen) together with a note of names from a bunch of different companies and universities.
Although OneNote for mac is cloud-based, it allows for generic hyperlink structures, including following the path to a local file (by entering file:/// before the file destination path when creating a hyperlink). The issue is that MacOS prevents it from opening the link as a protection and to get around this you'd just have to do as I just described.
Which version of OneNote is it? Did you just download recently or have you had it for quite a while? The current downloadable version of OneNote from Microsoft only works with files that are in the "cloud" - no local files can be opened.
When I tested it later today, I realized that local links to Word documents worked, but not to other documents. So, to work around this, I created a Applescript Service that takes a copied URL link from OneNote and lets me either reveal that file in Finder or open it. Incidentally, doing it this way, I don't have to preface my link with the file://. So, to open a linked file, I just right click on the OneNote link, click Copy Link, then press my hot key combination for that service and the Applescript presents me with "Reveal" or "Open" for that file. It will also check to make sure the file exists before continuing. Not the best scenario, but it works.
OK, see what you mean. But this puzzles me in a different way. How can a cloud based notebook file maintain access to any content inserted via links, since the system where the link points to, could be either offline or not even powered up? The only way I can think is for that content to be uploaded to the cloud, which would be a big no-no for security concerns. Perhaps that's the real issue preventing the OP from trying to and gets an access error?
At this point, OneNote seems to only open MS Office local files, but it won't open anything else locally. Similarly, I haven't seen any success in accessing other cloud services with OneNote. The errors that are mentioned seem to be something related to Yosemite, but I have not been able to find any details on what or why that would be. I have duplicated the similar error on Evernote, so it is not merely a OneNote problem. That lends support to the theory that there is something that Yosemite is doing to block access somehow.
Further, I noticed that under Settings -> Apps -> Apps -> OneNote -> Opening standards only the following formats are listed under supported links: *.sharepoint-df.com, onenoteresume.page.link, *.sharepoint.de and *.sharepoint.com. So the suggested link format onenote:https://[linktonote] is not listed here. Can I somehow add it here? And: is the beginging onenote: important at all since it is not recognized as part of the link? I don't understand why the link does not open the app for me but does for others.
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