I took a recent post (see below) as a random text example for some
OneNote testing. I pasted the paragraph into Notepad and the file was
2KB. Pretty small. I then pasted the same file into Word and it was
12x bigger at 25K. I then Inserted the file as a Printout (image) and
that increased the filesize 200K. I appears that each page printed to
OneNote takes up 200K. I then printed the .txt file to OneNote ....
it added just under 200K to the filesize of the .one file. I then
took a screengrab. Pasted it into Paint .. copied it .. and pasted it
into OneNote ... and it was around 100K.

Considering a 5 page document will bloat a .one file 1 Meg ... I am
not to sure alot of printing to OneNote is a good idea.

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I have consolidated all of my reference and project files into the
same
set of folders that I use for OneNote files. Naturally, OneNote has
no
clue that they are there. I recently got a desktop again because my
aging
laptop wasn't keeping up any more. I synchronize my laptop and my
desktop.

For the OneNote files I synchronize the accepted OneNote way. I moved
all
the files to the desktop, deleted all the files from the laptop
(including the cache files), then opened the desktop's OneNote
notebooks
from the laptop over the network. This means that the only OneNote
files
on the laptop are the cache files and there is no OneNote folder
structure in the default "My Notebooks" folder.


However, that still leaves all my other files sitting on my desktop.
This
is where my old synchronization program (SureSync from
www.softwarepursuits.com) comes in handy. I set it to synchronize all
those other files to a folder structure on the laptop that is exactly
identical to that on the desktop. I set it to ignore any actual
OneNote
files and only synchronize the others. Since the drive and folder path
is
identical on both machines, I can now open linked-to files from
within
OneNote on either machine.


I am working on moving as many files as reasonable directly into
OneNote
by dragging them onto the appropriate OneNote page and choosing the
middle option but that is a lot of work and not everything should be
treated that way. This way I have the best of both worlds. I get the
paragraph level synchronization of OneNote and all the other files
get
synchronized too.
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