![]() ![]() one OneNote file(s) between your machines as you would expect. Confusingly you could even set that backup folder to be on OneDrive where it would then sync the actual. Under Options > Save & Backup you can tell OneNote to automatically place backups in a location that you dictate on schedule between once a minute and once every 6 weeks. You can get that and still use OneDrive syncing. What I actually want is a physical copy of my notebook so I can back it up It needs to create or move the notebook and then tell OneDrive that you’re now using OneNote syncing, hiding the notebook and then leaving that shortcut placeholder. If you want to share your notebook between devices and/or other people then you need to use the OneNote program itself to plumb in the syncing. URL=!7844&type=3 Ok, so what does this all mean? If you open the file with a text editor you can see the contents: The placeholder that sits within your OneDrive with the same name as the notebook is just a shortcut to the web-only OneNote view. You have the notebook stored on your machine (tucked away somewhere) and it just happens that it’s on the OneDrive servers where this special OneNote-only synchronisation occurs, hence the confusion. That is to say the file isn’t actually on OneDrive as a file that you can open. The important thing is that you have a full copy of the notebook on your local machine and it’s only the changes that are being synced. ![]() When OneNote does its native ‘OneDrive sync’ it actually only sends the changes up to the cloud which subsequently then sends these changes out to the other devices. Normally, cloud sync services like OneDrive or Dropbox copy the newest version of the file up to the cloud and then send it out to all the other devices logged in to that account. There is a lot of magic going on behind the scenes when OneNote & OneDrive are syncing your changes between machines.
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