OneNote is not the easiest program to troubleshoot but I will also add, it’s not a call I get often. So, good with the bad news here. Recently I took a call from a client who had an update from Windows that corrupted all her notebook and sections, and she had a lot of them.
She did have a collection of her notebooks that were in a “misplaced sections” and that data was fine. Any other recoveries just created empty sections. There was also a little ^ in the name of each section (these are bad and data can’t be added/saved or edited from what we found)
Before ever doing any repair work, be sure you have a backup
So I tried this and it worked. Took a while to figure out, so don’t expect this to be a quick repair:
Simple instructions:
I created a new notebook on a new account (I used a completely different 365 account)
Added the misplaced section
Exported to a new section with a new name.
Then I copied it to the new notebook. I see it in the new account desktop and cloud
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