Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint
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We have a large number of legacy OneNote files storage in Sharepoint via Office 365. When we first started using OneNote, the files were stored as normal files and we could upload them, download them, etc. They were decently practical. Now, Sharepoint and OneNote both block any attempts at working with local files and there seems to be no mechanism for downloading the actual OneNote files to store them somewhere else.
Has anyone else had any luck with this? We just want to take a copy of our own MS Office files and store there somewhere as an archive.
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@scottalanmiller said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
We have a large number of legacy OneNote files storage in Sharepoint via Office 365. When we first started using OneNote, the files were stored as normal files and we could upload them, download them, etc. They were decently practical. Now, Sharepoint and OneNote both block any attempts at working with local files and there seems to be no mechanism for downloading the actual OneNote files to store them somewhere else.
Has anyone else had any luck with this? We just want to take a copy of our own MS Office files and store there somewhere as an archive.
Why not do a plain File Save as?
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/back-up-notes-f58b34b0-611d-435e-87fa-7942a1767af4
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@dbeato said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
@scottalanmiller said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
We have a large number of legacy OneNote files storage in Sharepoint via Office 365. When we first started using OneNote, the files were stored as normal files and we could upload them, download them, etc. They were decently practical. Now, Sharepoint and OneNote both block any attempts at working with local files and there seems to be no mechanism for downloading the actual OneNote files to store them somewhere else.
Has anyone else had any luck with this? We just want to take a copy of our own MS Office files and store there somewhere as an archive.
Why not do a plain File Save as?
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/back-up-notes-f58b34b0-611d-435e-87fa-7942a1767af4
Because they don't offer that
That's all we were ever trying to do, to save the files. That doesn't exist for OneNote. We've looked and looked, the moment you select a OneNote file, any "save" option is gone. -
@scottalanmiller said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
We have a large number of legacy OneNote files storage in Sharepoint via Office 365. When we first started using OneNote, the files were stored as normal files and we could upload them, download them, etc. They were decently practical. Now, Sharepoint and OneNote both block any attempts at working with local files and there seems to be no mechanism for downloading the actual OneNote files to store them somewhere else.
Has anyone else had any luck with this? We just want to take a copy of our own MS Office files and store there somewhere as an archive.
How come you want to download them? I just choose Open with OneNote in SharePoint, then I can work with it offline as needed. It syncs when I jump back online so others can see changes.
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@bbigford said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
@scottalanmiller said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
We have a large number of legacy OneNote files storage in Sharepoint via Office 365. When we first started using OneNote, the files were stored as normal files and we could upload them, download them, etc. They were decently practical. Now, Sharepoint and OneNote both block any attempts at working with local files and there seems to be no mechanism for downloading the actual OneNote files to store them somewhere else.
Has anyone else had any luck with this? We just want to take a copy of our own MS Office files and store there somewhere as an archive.
How come you want to download them? I just choose Open with OneNote in SharePoint, then I can work with it offline as needed. It syncs when I jump back online so others can see changes.
Because we want to shut down Sharepoint and never look at it again
We aren't keeping the service, so we want to migrate the data. We chose it partially because the data was so easy to migrate originally. Now it would appear to be impossible - they've done everything possible to make it unable to be retrieved without manually typing the data back in. -
Okay, isn't there an Export option in OneNote that you can use to a OneNote Package file, PDF or TXT?
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@dbeato said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
Okay, isn't there an Export option in OneNote that you can use to a OneNote Package file, PDF or TXT?
Not the OneNote that I have access to. I've looked and looked.
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@dbeato said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
Okay, isn't there an Export option in OneNote that you can use to a OneNote Package file, PDF or TXT?
Tried that, only option is print to file and while that produces a PDF, it only gets one page at a time, not the full document.
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@dbeato said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
Yeah, my version is only online and doesn't have that option in it.
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Maybe you can take lots of screenshots and OCR those bad boys...
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@rojoloco said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
Maybe you can take lots of screenshots and OCR those bad boys...
That seems to be out MS O365 works these days.
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Found a download option. It downloads the stuff for us. And then when you open your fresh backup this is all that is in there...
This file cannot be downloaded
A huge FU from O365.
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This is the reason their revs are higher than ever despite the fact fewer people use their stuff than ever before. Never ending vendor lock in. They wont even let you export your own data--allegedly
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Yeah well, the exporting it didn't work. So I tried exporting to PDF well yes you can do that, but not the whole notebook, page by page. And before you do that you have to format each page to fit on a page or the formatting is horrible.
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@minion-queen said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
Yeah well, the exporting it didn't work. So I tried exporting to PDF well yes you can do that, but not the whole notebook, page by page. And before you do that you have to format each page to fit on a page or the formatting is horrible.
Basically the fat client works the same as the web one, then.
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@momurda said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
This is the reason their revs are higher than ever despite the fact fewer people use their stuff than ever before. Never ending vendor lock in. They wont even let you export your own data--allegedly
Yup, this is the nail in the coffin. No way would we stay with O365 now.
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@scottalanmiller said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
@momurda said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
This is the reason their revs are higher than ever despite the fact fewer people use their stuff than ever before. Never ending vendor lock in. They wont even let you export your own data--allegedly
Yup, this is the nail in the coffin. No way would we stay with O365 now.
Even I who am MS certified etc. Am not staying with O365. When we chose this path we tested the migration off of it etc. (always do that for everything). This is unacceptable
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@minion-queen said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
@scottalanmiller said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
@momurda said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
This is the reason their revs are higher than ever despite the fact fewer people use their stuff than ever before. Never ending vendor lock in. They wont even let you export your own data--allegedly
Yup, this is the nail in the coffin. No way would we stay with O365 now.
Even I who am MS certified etc. Am not staying with O365. When we chose this path we tested the migration off of it etc. (always do that for everything). This is unacceptable
And that's on top of it not being all that great of a product. We've not been very happy with it. The only real positive has been the account integration.
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@minion-queen said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
@scottalanmiller said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
@momurda said in Download OneNote Files from Sharepoint:
This is the reason their revs are higher than ever despite the fact fewer people use their stuff than ever before. Never ending vendor lock in. They wont even let you export your own data--allegedly
Yup, this is the nail in the coffin. No way would we stay with O365 now.
Even I who am MS certified etc. Am not staying with O365. When we chose this path we tested the migration off of it etc. (always do that for everything). This is unacceptable
Out of curiosity, what are you migrating to?
