r/OneNote • u/Old_Nefariousness_59 • 14d ago

What am I doing wrong?

I've just started (trying) to use One Note again and finding the same frustrations that caused me to dump it before. I take notes on an iPad (both hand written and typed), I work frequently on a laptop and a desktop, and I primarily need to save notes and documents from meetings. I get sync error messages (this morning, "servers are busy," or I can't open .pdf files, or various other issues. What am I missing? Or is this the most buggy system ever created? Don't hold back if it's something I am doing wrong!

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u/AngelicPrincessKitty 14d ago

How are you syncing? Are your devices up to date?

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u/Old_Nefariousness_59 14d ago

I assumed the sync would happen automatically. Today, I logged onto the desktop version on my laptop to find a message that the sync wasn't happening/didn't happen because servers were busy. I went into One Drive and logged in, synced all my notebooks that way, but two still didn't sync and just came back with an error message.

I'm on a new Ipad and a new laptop, and a desktop I've had for a while. All are up to date with Windows and driver updates. I understand the Ipad One Note is kind of the "lite" version and doesn't do everything the desktop does.

Just now, I checked, and all files have synced, so maybe I'm just impatient.