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sync 2 separate notebooks

Anonymous
2010-12-08T14:39:37+00:00

I have two notebooks with the same name, each on a different pc. Can I sync them without loosing any data from either one.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-12-08T17:57:06+00:00

    Both had been edited extensively before I realized what had

    happened. My problem is that I want to reintegrate them without

    losing any info from either. Is that possible?

    Not by the program,. You'll have to do that with Brain 1.0  (i.e.

    comparing both notebooks , page by page).

    Doing this with 2 ON-Windows side-by-side[1]  will make things easier.

    Rainald

    [1] Open a second instance of ON with Ctrl + M

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-12-08T17:13:19+00:00

    All of my other notebooks are shared in the way you describe. This particular one was used and saved by someone else when NOT connected to the master and became saved in a local location on my laptop. 

    I assume you're talking about saving using File, Save As (Onenote doesn't know a normal Save).

    If the changes happened explicitely to the Saved As-copy which was re-opened for that after saving, then you can only compare manually to find the differences.

    If the changes were made to the cached copy after Save As and that copy wasn't closed then you should be able to sync now.

    So the question is: what did "someone else" really ?

    Bernd

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-12-08T16:52:23+00:00

    All of my other notebooks are shared in the way you describe. This particular one was used and saved by someone else when NOT connected to the master and became saved in a local location on my laptop. Both had been edited extensively before I realized what had happened. My problem is that I want to reintegrate them without losing any info from either. Is that possible?

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-12-08T16:01:27+00:00

    Iassume we talk about two notebooks which you created explicitely using File, New, Notebook, ... in Onenote.

    And now you want them to become synchronised.

    That is not the way Onenote works.

    If you want one notebook to be used on more than one computer and being synced automatically by Onenote you must create or take one existing notebook which is declared as the master or original notebook.

    All other instances of this notebook are local copies within the so called cache used by Onenote.

    These "copies" are created by navigating with Onenote to the place where the master resides using File, Open, Notebook ...

    The master can reside

    1. 2. on an USB-stick

    Syncing happens automatically if a computer with a cached copy gets access to its master (over LAN or by putting in the USB-stick).

    Bernd

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