No local file storage for OneNote on Mac version?

I’ve used OneNote on PC for years and loved it.  Just obtained for my Mac and was startled to see only an option for cloud storage.  Like many others, I will *NEVER* use this product if it forces me to store content offline in anyone’s ‘cloud’ … MS, Apple, Google … it does not matter.  And that’s a shame, b/c I have to say, it is a great program (at least the PC version was).   INMO, whoever made the business decision at MS to ship a product in this fashion made a mistake.  OK, that’s excusable.  There have been worse business decisions by many companies, but most times, they are remedied when the customer market balks.     But for MS to ignore the rather large pushback from customers across the user spectrum - corporate and individual alike - on the surface appears to be pure arrogance.  I see responses from the OneNote product team responding to individual forum posts on other topics which are interspersed among a much larger number of comments decrying the local storage issue.  Clearly they have seen the complaints and have just chosen not even to respond.  Not even a "we hear you", although in other announcements, it's stated "you spoke and we listened".  

Doesn't this issue merit being acknowledged by the company?   

Well said Joe.

I’ve used OneNote on PC for years and loved it.  Just obtained for my Mac and was startled to see only an option for cloud storage.  Like many others, I will *NEVER* use this product if it forces me to store content offline in anyone’s ‘cloud’ … MS, Apple, Google … it does not matter.  And that’s a shame, b/c I have to say, it is a great program (at least the PC version was).   INMO, whoever made the business decision at MS to ship a product in this fashion made a mistake.  OK, that’s excusable.  There have been worse business decisions by many companies, but most times, they are remedied when the customer market balks.     But for MS to ignore the rather large pushback from customers across the user spectrum - corporate and individual alike - on the surface appears to be pure arrogance.  I see responses from the OneNote product team responding to individual forum posts on other topics which are interspersed among a much larger number of comments decrying the local storage issue.  Clearly they have seen the complaints and have just chosen not even to respond.  Not even a "we hear you", although in other announcements, it's stated "you spoke and we listened".  

Doesn't this issue merit being acknowledged by the company?  

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Thanks,

Joe

I have to work with other people on files stored collaboratively on our group's Windows fileserver. That is where the files are stored and from which everyone accesses them and edit them collaboratively. I think this is a pretty common scenario. It works great for my colleagues, who all use Windows and are able to open the files. However, since I do my personal work on a mac, this is a huge inconvenience, because I can't open things that are on the server. You said "in the free version for MAC it only syncs to the cloud". Is there a version I could purchase that would allow me to open local files. I would gladly pay for a program if it allows me to open end edit local files.

Thanks,

Barratt

I agree.  Sounds like Microsoft wants to do some snooping.  Also, who wants to put their stuff on line where hackers can have access.  Microsoft is not above it.  Very disappointing.  I guess I won't be using this program after all.

...Keep this up and more folks will jump ship.  A shame, since OneNote was that good.

I started jumping ship with Win8... moved to Mac.

Then with OneNote for Mac I moved to Outline.

Now I use OpenOffice instead of Ms Office.

Couldn't be happier to be free of all Ms apps.

Next step is to cut ties with Adobe and their subscription only apps.

OneNote for Mac is basically an OS X port of the Universal OneNote App.  That's why it's feature set is more in line with the iOS, WinRT, or Android OneNote client than the Win32 OneNote Client.  That's why it doesn't allow you to save Notebooks offline.  It will never let you do that, so stop asking for it.  Microsoft does not, and never, intended for that app to be used completely offline - only in a cached mode.

They want to lock you into their ecosystem, and step one to doing that is to tie you to a Microsoft Account.