I simply went into the renamed folder and opened the Notebook in OneNote 2016 again.Confused why Microsoft is maintaining two different versions of OneNote on Windows? Well, that’s about to end.

It was easy to get things back to status quo. That’s why there was no warning of Misplaced Sections when I closed the Notebook. I pondered for a bit why it would be different in this instance… and then realized that the difference between this experiment and the other experience was that I had performed a complete sync of the Notebook before renaming the Folder. I was surprised that the error message was different, and was much clearer for an end user to understand and realize what had happened.

When I checked the Notebook Sync Status screen, the Notebook gave this error: I renamed the folder to “Notebooks – Shared” so it would sort alphabetically with the rest of the Notebook folders – see:īack in OneNote 2016, the sync icon in SharePoint 2016 became a red X, like we saw in my previous post when we experimented with Notebooks being moved between SharePoint sites. I opened the “Test-Change-Folder-Name” Notebook in OneNote 2016, then renamed the OneDrive for Business folder from “Shared Notebooks”. I then created a fake Notebook called “Test-Change-Folder-Name” to see what kind of sync error I’d get in OneNote 2016. I synced all the Notebooks and then closed them in OneNote 2016.

I had four ‘real’ Notebooks in a folder called “Shared Notebooks”. The easiest way to do this is to have them all start with the word “Notebooks”. Recently I realized that it would be easier to have all my Notebook-related folders together in one bunch. I want it to be very clear what should be shared, and what should not, for example my private Microsoft MVP NDA Notebook. I use folders in my OneDrive for Business to help me manage my sharing permissions.

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