Opening a Backup Copy of a Notebook Section

OneNote keeps backup copies of your notebooks. These backup copies of notebooks are maintained in the form of sections. The sections have the file extension .one. For example, the backup copy of a section called “Production” is called “Production.one.” To help identify when backup copies were made, OneNote lists the date they were made after the backup name.

To view the backup copy of a section, click File, choose Info, and click the Open Backups button. Then, in the Open Backup dialog box, open the folder with the name of your notebook, select the backup section you want to open, and click the Open button (in the Open Backup dialog box, sections in section groups are stored in a subfolder named after ...

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