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I just tried OneNote for a Mac.
I noticed that there is no way to load or save a local OneNote file.
I've been using OneNote on a PC for years. Really like it a lot. Was hoping to
now use it on my Mac.
I don't know why OneNote is setup this way. I can't even load my existing personal
files from the Mac. The decision to use a cloud service should be mine and not forced into
it. Even Evernote lets me store locally.
I use it for both personal and work related projects. I cannot put work projects out on
a public cloud repository so this new version is a no go for work. At this point I think
I'll look at Mac equivalents to OneNote and convert to something else.....
Free is great, but I would pay for a fully functional Mac version of OneNote. Please reconsider
local file storage.
Disappointed.
Mick
A family of Microsoft products that enable users to capture, organize, and reuse notes electronically.
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How hard is it to enable opening a local file like every other Office app? Are you trying to prove to the world that the Mac Office team is incompetent?
Microsoft does know better. NSA uses SharePoint (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/19/nsa\_sharepoint\_leaks/). Pretty sure the NSA doesn't use OneDrive...
I'm not sure you are listening; I've been waiting for sometime for local storage option. Many people feel very suspicious about storing e.g. your home office data on a cloud, especially since the security of the data cannot be 100% guaranteed. I use OneNote at work and was a big advocate for its use in our business and this has local server storage option.
As disappointed as I am, I will not use this product while the only option is to save to the cloud.
Oh-well,
been using one note on windows pc for quite awhile. have notebooks, locally, personal one drive, business one drive, business sharefile, etc.
Now I am adding a Mac. oh boy it is horrible on a Mac! can't access my files from share file, can't create any notebooks on Mac locally. can only use one drive to store files. Plus you can't pin the open notebooks on the left side.
I see you guys have been aware of this problem since 2014. Are you looking at dropping the one note application? Is that why there has not been any progress? I can see thousands of users dropping one note and having to find another note application because many companies would require only using the storage on their computers. So is that what is happening? Thousands dropped one note and now you don't have as many users so you guys are not making it functional on the Mac??
This is a big problem. People need the ability to create notebooks on their local drives!!!!!!!! HUGE ISSUE!
Are you guys (Microsoft) going to fix this or just leave it and let the app go to the wayside?
Unfortunately, as you probably saw from reading through this thread, the official response from Microsoft is that there are no plans to allow local storage on the Mac. If this is a requirement you should switch to another program. Microsoft apparently does not see this as a priority on the Mac side.