So I've had a huge headache trying to sync a preexisting onenote notebook on 
my tablet to a desktop (and have the version stored on the desktop be the 
main version) ... here is the info for anyone else:

I tried at first to share my tablet's onenote notebook by:

share->share this notebook 2.)share on: NETWORK and 3. Network Location: a 
path on the desktop (it was a shared folder with all the right permissions)

THIS DID NOT WORK.

some of the various errors:
user-mapped section open
some sections could not be synced
onenote cannot access the notebook cache file

SOLUTION:
It should be made clearer that you should create a local notebook on the 
server using its onenote, share it there, then open it from satellite 
computers.  

It took a few days of figuring to sync my tablet's onenote with the desktop. 
(I had created the notebook on the tablet first).  to make it work I had to: 

change the notebook location back to the local (tablet) location, close 
notebook, then copy and upload the files to the desktop.  Open up the 
desktop's onenote, open the onenote notebook, share it (at the local desktop 
location).  Then on the tablet, I had to open up one note, then "open 
notebook", find the newly shared onenote notebook on the network share from 
the desktop, select it. and ouila, it works. At this point it helps to close 
the old non synched one.

Of course I could have just used my tablet as a the server, but then I'd 
have to open up the desktop to have it sync properly instead of the more 
intuitive, open up my laptop and have it sync to my desktop for backup.

When I have decided to share a notebook that I created on a local computer, 
all I did was close the notebook on that computer, then use Windows Explorer 
to copy its folder to the shared drive, then open the notebook from the new 
location.

Alternatively, I think I've used "change location" in "properties" too, and 
that also seemed to work for me.

(Not an expert).

Oops, I use ON2007, not ON2010 - disregard.

"coolnote" wrote:
> When I have decided to share a notebook that I created on a local computer, 
> all I did was close the notebook on that computer, then use Windows Explorer 
> to copy its folder to the shared drive, then open the notebook from the new 
> location.
> Alternatively, I think I've used "change location" in "properties" too, and 
> that also seemed to work for me.
> (Not an expert).

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> Oops, I use ON2007, not ON2010 - disregard.
> 

Not necessarily !

I don't believe the underlying procedure has changed (just too dangerous).

1. I agree with you in so far as the best way relocating a notebook is 
closing all using OneNote instances and THEN moving it by Windows means.

2. I disagree with the description it would be necessary to create a 
notebook with OneNote on the the same computer.
I created my 1st notebook "original" on a share on my desktop over the 
network, using my tablet pc.

Bernd

Bernd wrote:

>> Oops, I use ON2007, not ON2010 - disregard.
>>
>
> Not necessarily !

Right!

> I don't believe the underlying procedure has changed (just too
> dangerous).

Exactly.
In so far everything is as it used to be,

> 1. I agree with you in so far as the best way relocating a notebook is
> closing all using OneNote instances and THEN moving it by Windows
> means.

Rightyright!

> 2. I disagree with the description it would be necessary to create a
> notebook with OneNote on the the same computer.

Rightyright!

> I created my 1st notebook "original" on a share on my desktop over the
> network, using my tablet pc.

Indeed it does not matter at all, *where* a notebook was created and
*how*.

A notebook is a notebook! <g>
There is nothing *inside* a notebook related to the origin.

However, the dialogs in ON2007 (and in ON2007 as well) appearing on
creating a new notebook are seriously misleading!!

Rainald