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Other OneNote file types – OneNote Package & Table of Contents

  • Artigo

Again another blog post that was requested by you the blogshere. As you all know the main OneNote file type is .one which is an individual section file and it lives, as all files in, in a directory/folder. You can open up folders as notebooks in OneNote and any subfolders will be Section Groups in OneNote. However there are a few other OneNote files that are important and in most cases you will never see, but if you are reading this blog then you like to learn about stuff so let me share with you all.

OneNote Single File Package - .onepkg

OneNote Packages are like zip files that allow you to share OneNote files across computers including all of the embedded files that were in those sections/files. Additionally you can send entire notebooks which you couldn't do before in OneNote 2003. If you are in OneNote and want to send an entire notebook to someone you can choose File-->Save as and select to save the entire notebook as a .onepkg see here:

Then you can send that file as an attachment and the recipient can open that file directly and it will take them to OneNote and show them the entire notebook. It is a great way to share files with people and you can't use a shared notebook. It is also a great way to archive all of your files. In reality this is just a CAB file so you can open the file yourself. Note: in earlier builds of OneNote 2007, like Beta1, these were called OneNote Archives and were .onea files (just in case anyone ever googles for ".onea" I wanted to have this out in the world somewhere)

OneNote Table of Contents - .onetoc & .onetoc2

Another file type most people have never seen before are the OneNote TOC files. These files are system files by default so unless you have told Windows to show them you probably haven't seen them. These files contain the ordering of sections within a notebook. The .onetoc was for OneNote 2003 and contain information about which files are open/closed and in what order the sections appear. In OneNote 2007 we have .onetoc2 files which has information about ordering of sections. If you delete this file then OneNote will open the notebook in alphabetical order and then you can reorder them yourself.

If you have questions please let me know.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2006
    Thanks. I think that covers it well.

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2006
    Sweet!  So, the .onepkg includes the linked audio and video files as well as any imported powerpoints?

  • Anonymous
    September 08, 2006
    Yes it does.  Also in B2TR in most cases the .one will including these files as well.

  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2007
    Is there a programmable way to get an XML content from static section (.one) and hierarchy (.onetoc2) files? What is a .one binary?

  • Anonymous
    January 08, 2008
    I've noticed that this file: OneNote Table Of Contents.onetoc2 decides to recreate itself automatically in a variety of folders where it does not apply. Even when I delete the file - on an external hard-drive that works with many systems - that same file shows up again and again. OneNote is a great program, but I don't need it creating extra undetectable files with no obvious way to stop it. I would like to run Windows, but Ubuntu linux appears to have far less problems, with far more support. Please tell me how I can stop OneNote from creating these unnessecary files. -b

  • Anonymous
    January 08, 2008
    b - You are getting this because you have some folder or parent folder open as a notebook in OneNote.  Close the notebook in OneNote, deleted those .onetoc2 files and then you will never see them again.  However if you open the folder as a notebook then OneNote will create them.

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2008
    dear every one, please help me out if you can. I have saved my notebook as onenote single file package and now i have problem unpacking the same file. system says that i'm using a different version of onenote while the version is the same as before. thanks in advance for your help.

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2008
    ok now whats with the daniel fircken copy cat

  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2008
    I want to pass on a notebook to my students.  Which is a better way, to zip (compress) the notebook folder or to package?  I do not have any files connected to the notebook.  

  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2009
    I've been experiencing an issue with One Note in which I may accidentally delete a subpage and then I am unable to retrieve it.  Is there a way of retrieving deleted files from One Note? Where is the trash stored? Thanks for your help.

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2010
    How to prevent creation of these "OneNote Table Of Contents.onetoc2" files?

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2011
    @Mari - These files are created by OneNote when you open a notebook and all of the folders under the notebook will have this flie.  To prevent this make sure there are no OneNote clients (on your computer or elsewhere) that have any part of this folder strucutre open as a notebook.  

  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2013
    Hi, how do I open a .toc2 notebook in OneNote 2010?

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2015
    pictures in my hard disk are converted in onetoc2 format,how to get my pictures back?