How to retrieve Onenote from a Mac Time Machine backup

Question

My Mac crashed and I trying to access the onenote files i had from time machine backups. Dont know how to.... as you can appreciate have a lot of useful information in onenote. I didnt have it backed up to onedrive....

Answer 1

Hi T.Sanj,

Thanks for posting the question on our forum.

Notebooks can’t be saved on our Mac, it need to be stored on OneDrive.

When you edit the notebooks, it will automatically sync the content to OneDrive.

You needn’t to backup it manually.

About the Time Machine feature, as the notebook isn’t stored on Mac, Time Machine only backup

the OneNote cache, it is in fact a copy of all opened notebooks but in a special binary and fragmented format for sync purposes only. It's not usable as a backup because you can't restore any information from it. 

Given the situation, I suggest you still check it via OneDrive, you can check if is there any other OneDrive account where you store the notebook.

If this is not your situation, you are welcome to post back and provide the detailed information, such as where did you store the notebook, personal OneDrive or OneDrive for Business?

Regards,

Qing

Answer 2

Hi T.Sanj,

Did you need further help? Do you have any updates?

Regards,

Qing

Answer 3

Hi T.Sanj,

Thanks for your updates.

As we can only store notebook on OneDrive, according to your description, you have checked all OneDrive, there is no the notebook.

It may be caused by that the notebook has been deleted or the notebooks was shared by other user.

You can check if you can find the notebook on recycle bin of OneDrive as below:

If you can't find it, I want to confirm where did you store the notebook.

Regards,

Qing

Answer 4

Sorry for the delay - i have checked all the onedrive accounts i have. 2 personal didnt have a notebook directory in onedrive. the business onedrive account had 0b in the notebook folder.

Answer 5

Hi T.Sanj,

Did you need further help? Do you have any updates?

Regards,

Qing