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Friday, February 28, 2014 1:55 PM | 1 vote
hello,
when creating one-note notebook the file "Open Notebook.onetoc2" is also created.
When opening/deleting this file, there is no problem.
What are these files, and what can be done to NOT create these files with new notebooks?
Thx
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Monday, March 10, 2014 2:32 AM âś…Answered
Hi,
If we try to delete those hundreds of .onetoc2 files on locations where no .one files are saved, will these files be recreated again? If these files will recreate, can you confirm which notebooks are related to these files? We can try to back up the problematic onenote file and then delete it to check the result.
For other .onetoc2 files which are on locations where a .one file is saved, we can delete the the click to open a .one file. If you want to prevent the .onetoc2 from being created with a notebook, I'm afraid it's not possible.
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Steve Fan
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Saturday, March 1, 2014 10:07 AM
anybody?
Monday, March 3, 2014 5:25 AM
Hi,
.onetoc2 is a Microsoft OneNote index file that stores information about the order of note-taking sections. It is used to organize a collection of notes in a notebook. If the onetoc2 file is deleted, OneNote will display the notebook sections in alphabetical order, which the user can manually reorder. See:
http://www.openthefile.com/ext/onetoc2/5146
The only way to prevent them from being created is to not open any parent or grandparent folder as a "Notebook" in OneNote. More information, please refer:
Hope this helps.
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Monday, March 3, 2014 7:28 AM
Hi,
i understand this is an index-file.
But why is this file created on every folder where an one-file is saved?
Can the file only be saved on a central location?
This because i am saving one-note-files in seperate project-folders.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 1:52 AM
Just as mentioned in my last reply, .onetoc2 file is used to organize a collection of notes in a notebook. Every folder contains .one file is a notebook and the .one files are the sections in the notebook.
If no .onetoc2 file is found in the folder, OneNote opens a single section. If a .onetoc2 file is found in the folder, OneNote opens the .onetoc2 file as a notebook.
We can try to close the notebook from your OneNote, and then move the .onetoc2 out of the notebook folder and paste it to desktop. Then, if we try to open the .one file, OneNote will only open one section, not the whole notebook.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 8:39 AM
Thx, i will try this
Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:00 PM
Hi,
Have you tried that? Any update on this qustion?
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Steve Fan
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 5:45 PM
I have tried it, but it`s not the solution...
Friday, March 7, 2014 6:04 AM
No, it's not a solution, it's just an explanation. This is hard-coding and we can't find a way to change this, not even a way to save the .onetoc2 files on a central location. The .onetoc2 file is just an index file and delete it may cause some unwanted problems.
I'd like to know why you don't want OneNote to create this file, is it too large and takes too much space from your local disk? But on my environment, it's just 7KB. Please let me know you concern so that we can check if we can find something to workaround it.
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Friday, March 7, 2014 7:26 AM
Hi,
it`st not that big.
But my NAS is having hundreds of these files now.
The strange thing is , that i also see these files on locations where no one-note-files are saved...
Thursday, March 13, 2014 2:22 AM
Hi,
Just checking in to see if the information was helpful. Please let us know if you would like further assistance.
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Monday, March 17, 2014 1:11 AM
Hi,
I'm marking the reply as answer as there has been no update for a couple of days.
If you come back to find it doesn't work for you, please reply to us and unmark the answer.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:12 PM
Hi,
i saw when deleting these files, the index is gone.
So i think it`s better to leave those files on my Nas..
Monday, March 24, 2014 12:15 PM
Hello,
in the past i created a New notebook with 30 sections in it.
I have deleted the "open notebook.onetoc2"-file , so now i only have seperate files for all sections.
Are there any possiblities to recreate this as 1-notebook file? (i have no backup)
Thx!
Saturday, June 7, 2014 7:46 PM
I have the same problem of .onetoc2 being automatically (and unexpectedly) populated throughout my OneDrive. Can I simply have all the OneNote related files in one folder similar to Outlook .pst files.
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:03 PM
I feel this is a poor UX consideration with OneNote.
As an OneNote user, I do not like it when OneNote invades my OneDrive with *.onenote files just because they feel like it. If Microsoft wants to be that pervasive by default, *dejectedly* fine... But we should be given the option to turn off the feature that floods our drive with the said files. Some of us do not like the ToC setup in OneNote.
This is how I work with my notes:
I treat OneNote notebooks as if they were singular notebooks that contain notes and maybe images or PDFs I put in there. That's it. I don't need it to have a Table of Content to show the subfolders. I find this very confusing because I have sections and section groups that are dedicated to lectures, readings, exam tips, etc... With the ToC style, it treats the subfolders of the folder as if they were sections and mixes in with my other sections, making it confusing. I find this very frustrating and reflect this as a negative component in UX.
Please fix this issue.
Monday, July 3, 2017 8:28 AM
Another problem here!!! I have 13.322 .onetoc2 files in onedrive and my laptop is very slow with sync. Takes days to get those files sync'd. Anyone can help me to get rid of those files in a proper way?
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 5:39 PM
We have OneNote documents in one folder. That OneNote synchronizes withing that directory is perfectly understandable and desirable. But to synchronize all other folders in parallel levels of hierarchy on the entire drive is ridiculous. I have to agree with poor design. Do we have to have a separate server for OneNote since we are seeing the idiotic open notebook.onetoc2 files across drives?
I store customer information in different folders of the same network drive. My customer files are permeated with the OneNote index. When I compress the folder to send the notes I have to remember to remove those pesky files since the customer has no clue what those are for.
Like in the OS, if you want to index something, you have to declare the range of folders and subfolders being indexed. Do not offer to implement a blanket solution for convenience because there is a list of people here telling this is mighty inconvenient to clean up, and to answer the questions of others we work with about those obtrusive files that have no business spreading beyond its folder of residence.