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Somehow,.... I don't know how, my "linked Notes" window has started to dock on top of my screen. It cannot be moved, sized, or otherwise adjusted. I've checked the "dock new sidenotes to the side of the desktop" in the options. I've seen a few other people mention this problem of locating the docking window, but so far no answers.
Thanks for the help
OneNote 2010
Windows 7
A family of Microsoft products that enable users to capture, organize, and reuse notes electronically.
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I had the same problem. Dragging the top bar to the right side of the screen while it's docked does the trick. It doesn't look like you are dragging it when you are doing it, but when you release it at the side of the screen, OneNote readjusts to a right-side docked position.
I found i needed to drag the top bar to the middle on the side. Just dragging across the top to the side did not work.
Incredible. I've struggled with this for months, haven't been able to resolve and searched forums several times. The key is that the behavior is different with dual displays and you have to move the docked window to the side of the OTHER display, not the one you're using, to undock it. Thanks for posting Kelbyn!
Thanks again for all the help Bernd, I sincerely appreciate what you've done to get me back going.
Bottom line is: I am back working 100% with a much better understanding of how everything is pieced together now.
That was my hidden intention ;-)
BTW: Did you notice the apologies from MS and the deletion of the advice you were the victim of ?
Some further comments:
"Personal (Web)" is a generated and fixed name on Skydrive. The app needs it.
Never use Dropbox for synching of Onenote notebooks. They use different and colliding synch mechanisms. Said that I am a convinced Dropbox user too, for any other file type.
Onenote makes backups automatically which are always local at any computer where the Onenote desktop SW is installed. For open notebooks only.
Never close a notebook because this deletes its copy within the cache.
Thanks for the cup of coffee, would be a long way, because I live in Germany, near Munich.
Bernd
Thanks again for all the help Bernd, I sincerely appreciate what you've done to get me back going.
Bottom line is: I am back working 100% with a much better understanding of how everything is pieced together now.
* The only way that I could delete the OneNote_DeletedPages.one "page" was with Win Explorer.
* I started over with the Notebook naming and now my notebook (remember, I am a brand new user) was named Personal (Web) and now it is named Notebook 2011 (SkyDrive) and it is syncing successfully (though different from before) now.
FWIW, I found out about OneNote from the Apple App Store or a post that pointed me there. I downloaded the iPad app and installed it. I already had a live.com account but wasn't using SkyDrive because I am a DropBox user. The iPad OneNote app apparently set up my initial notebook and named it Personal (Web). I do not recall entering that name though it is possible that I did. Then I set up my laptop to use the folder in the cloud... that seemed to be easy. On Monday, I set up my office machine and that was also easy. I was clueless as to where the files/notebooks were being stored but I didn't care as long as they were safe. I can see now that they are more susceptible to error than I thought so care will be taken to be sure that I have a backup that can be recovered. I think OneNote does that automagically but I need to research that a bit more.
I'm done now and will crawl back in my hole; hopefully never to be heard from again here on this forum. It was a pleasure to have you help me and I'll be happy to buy you a cup of coffee if you're ever in Albuquerque!
-B-