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Automatic and manual backups is no longer working in OneNote!
File > Option > Save & Backup > 'Back Up All Notebooks Now' does not trigger anything :/
Backup Folder: C:\Users\*name*\OneNote
(16.07167.2040)
Any thoughts?
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rofl. I can't believe they haven't fixed it yet.
Actually, I can believe it. OneNote is one of the most useful apps ever with one of the most aggravating development teams of all time.
*smacks forehead*.
I've looked for alternatives obviously... nothing comes close
Thank you for posting this, ran into the very same problem. Can confirm it works.
For anyone else's reference i am on v1710 Build 8625.2127 and it's still a bug.
Yeah, as soon as I posted the first reply I thought of it. Doh! Rookie mistake but I was soooo pessimistic that I was expecting a fail as usual :-)
I work in IT so I guess I shouldn't be surprised at software having bugs. These days I find that getting software is more like buying a package of bugs which havE a few working features thrown in for free :-)
I posted in /r/Onenote. Hopefully OneNote devs see it!
https://www.reddit.com/r/OneNote/comments/5u6e9o/attn\_onenote\_devs\_local\_backupnotworking\_bug/
Yeah, as soon as I posted the first reply I thought of it. Doh! Rookie mistake but I was soooo pessimistic that I was expecting a fail as usual :-)
I work in IT so I guess I shouldn't be surprised at software having bugs. These days I find that getting software is more like buying a package of bugs which have a few working features thrown in for free :-)
Haha! I was just about to reply back saying "Did you make sure you hit OK first and that the setting was in effect after restarting OneNote"?
It took me 4 months of tweaking to finally figure out why this was happening. I see other MS threads also complaining of the same issue. I will post the fix.
I can't BELIEVE Microsoft hasn't realized that this is a bug yet!!