Two Methods to Recover Deleted OneNote Files

Is There Any Way to Recover Deleted OneNote Files?

"I had been working on an exam study guide in OneNote 2007 for several hours of work in the past few days. Last night, I accidentally deleted the file by pressing the Delete button. It's a nightmare! I have to get it back. Is there any way to recover deleted OneNote files?"

If you've lost or delete some recent notes you were working on, you may still have a chance to restore them. There are two possible ways to recover deleted OneNote files in this article; you can selectively choose to restore OneNote from backup or using hard drive recovery software.   

Method 1. Recover OneNote from Backup on the Computer

OneNote provides the automatic backup feature to keep the notes according to the time you set. If you have backed up OneNote, you can manually restore OneNote from backup.

If your OneNote files were stored on your computer, do the following.

• Open the notebook where you lost recent notes.
• Click "File" > "Info" > open "Backups".
• In the Open Backup dialog box, note the folder names that appear. Each folder represents a OneNote notebook that's stored on your computer.
• Double click the notebook folder you want to open.
• Select the notebook section backup file you want to open, and then click "Open".
• If your deleted notes are included in the backup sections or pages, right-click the section tab or individual page tab you want to restore, and then use the Move or Copy command to put the notes back in their original location.

Method 2. Recover Deleted OneNote files with Data Recovery Software

By default, OneNote saves your notebooks to OneDrive or you can choose to create a local notebook on your Windows Documents folder. And you can change the default location via going to "File" > "Options" > "Save & Backup" > "Modify…" and select a location. 

If you have deleted OneNote files on your computer, you can also use professional hard drive recovery software to recover lost OneNote without any data loss. And EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is such a versatile tool that enables you to restore lost documents with ease. For instance, recover lost Word documents, restore removed Excel, PTT, PDF, HTML, etc.

Except for the deleted files recovery, this program is also good at format recovery, lost partition recovery, OS crash recovery, virus attack recovery, RAW recovery, and so on.

Now, download and install the EaseUS data recovery tool for free. Then recover lost OneNote files with the step-by-step guide.

Step 1. Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard on your computer. Choose the OneNote file location and click the Scan button.

Step 2. The software will start immediately to scan all over the selected drive. Wait for the process ends, and then quickly filter the OneNote files by clicking "Filter" and choosing "Documents".

Step 3. Locate the OneNote files (.one) in the filtered results, select the desired ones and click "Recover" to get them all back.