10/21/2021 0 Comments Onenote For Mac Couldnt Sync
First, make sure you have the latest version of OneNote installed from the Mac App Store. Now Sorted, Sort of…0xE0000021: Need password to sync OneNote. Perhaps from one of the many #MSIEExpert folk on twitter. Outlook Mac Keeps Asking for Credentials It is a default application in Mac and saves the information of email account.I am looking from help on this one.The pupils iOs version of OneNote is kept updated too.The workflow is I create a page, in the teachers only or content library and use the Class Notebook distribute page facility to send the pages to pupils. After some research one of the tips to fix the issues were to log off and log on back.I’ve a small class of pupils, with 1-2-1 iPad Airs 1s.After having syncing problems with using the Word iOS app I switched to using a OneNote Class notebook for some distribution and collection of ‘work’.Most of it has been very lightweight, text in the main.I work on a Desktop iMac using OS 10.11 the OS and OneNote app are kept up to date. Everything was fine, all my notes were there but I was getting this offline error message at the top and couldnt sync. We didn’t get a complete fix, but have stopped the errors, documented further down.So I decided to open up one note after some time to check on things. Look for OneNote for Mac in the list of updates, and then click Update.This post has been updated several times since posted. The App Store opens and will display any updates for your installed macOS apps.It could be a different file type thats been renamed with a. I’ve now got 2 out of 13 pupils where the workflow fails.The error messages do not all seem to make much sense:It looks like this isn’t a valid OneNote section file. Despite repeated attempts to sync, logging on and off again these error persist.I’ve not strayed from standard use at all.The twitter thread is getting to be a bit of a mess with other problems crossing in so: More Updates I’ve not done that. Can copy the page and delete corrupted section (1/2)(2/2) then can try closing notebook and opening againOne thing that stopped sync for me was moving the folder from its initial place in the OneDriveI’ve not done that. These from Sarah clark am finding lots of sync errors with iPad at the moment. [Error code: OxE000004A)I am left wondering what do to? Should I remove the pupils and add them again? Should I delete the problematic sections? (I’ve emailed but only had a robot response so far.)For such a basic piece of classroom practise, worksheet distribution and jotter work, I can’t really have something that fails so frequently (like losing a couple of pupils jotters).Any ideas gratefully accepted, drop them in the comments.Update: getting a fair number of suggestions and me toos on twitter.
![]() Onenote Couldnt Sync Mac App StoreThis would explain and hint at a fix for the It looks like this isn’t a valid OneNote section file. Ian Stuart, a OneNote expert, has explined to me that you can get direct access to OneNote files in the full windows version. If I delete the Literacy sub-section 1 on the two pupils sections that are giving problems will I be able to distribute work to the new Literacy sections I create there? Are these sections just identified by name or something hidden, an id of some sort? ConcernsOn the mac/iOS versions of OneNote there is a lot of smoke & mirrors. Next StepsI am guessing that the best thing to do is to copy and then delete some of the problematic sections.My worry is that some of the sections are shared in the content Library and some are sections on Pupil’s sections. I think that, tied with Glow/SharePoint, is problemMike Tholfsen suggested that I send an email to I’ve done that and await any reply.At some point Sarah asked have you deleted history?After a bit of poking around I found history on the desktop OneNote app, but nothing to delete there.Another possibility – you’re using a new computer / device and whole notebook hasn’t had time to sync.But I’ve been using this Class NoteBook on and off for weeks. Since then I’ve mostly edited on mac.Mark McShane has lots of OneNote & OneDrive problems too.The business with Share-point sites/OneDrive/ondriveforbusiness is a mess. In its original Windows version it seems to have been rock solid for years. The concept behind OneNote (as explained by Ian), would seem wonderful. One extension problems.There does seem to be a fair bit of this sort of problem about, I’ve heard elsewhere of problems with windows versions too, content being lost, syncs failing. Mac os x lion dmgThe could load the Class NoteBook and it synced, apart from the contents that had not synced up from their own iPad.Hoping to find some good news on the overnight sync tomorrow. I await overnight results.I also got one of the pupils who is having trouble to use an iPad that has never had OneNote installed on it before. We have done that with one app, adding a complete deletion of the app and reinstall. More Updates 19-12-16I’ve had some suggestions from Mike Tholfsen, which involve getting problematic pupils to log out, force quit app and log in and sync again, (Leaving oneNote open, plugging device in and turning off screen lock overnight). I am now wondering if I should look at something else next session.Many thanks t othe folk who offered help on Twitter yesterday, ver much appreciated. I am somewhat surprised that it has worked after the test of a clean setup, I can only presume that in that case we had a new problem.We have not done much in the way of real life testing given that this is the last week of school before Christmas. After a short while syncing the Class NoteBook seems to be working, we tried creating a new page and that synced and I created a page on the desktop and that appeared.There were a few pages missing but we can live with that. Both pupils saw no errors there, there were a few pages they had created missing, I guess because they never got off the iPad, but all looked ok.Finally I got the pupils to delete the app, re-install and log on again. Both pupils continued to have sync fails after that.One avenue we explored first was to go though the browser to onenote.com. Given the problem persisted when we move to a ‘lean’ iPad I was a bit doubtful. ![]() I’ve been using tumblr for a few years now for all sorts of different projects, but I though I’d skip by that to the next thing, OneNote.Try using OneNote on your pc/laptop/device.Create a new Notebook, add some sections, pages, and try out the features. I appreciate the time it takes to put answers together.It is now Week Eight of 23 things and the topic is Digital Curation, OneNote and ClassNoteThing 15 is tumblr. I would be less confident in using the iOS/OneNote class notebook set up in a secondary if the material was exam critical.Many thanks to all the folk who tweeted suggestions and help, most have been synced in in comments below. I’ll also stop and sync before the last minutes of a lesson hopefully minimising failure. I will recommend that pupils take a copy of written work in their local Notes app, before syncing. Searching via the finder is pretty effective for this sort of information. My _notes folder has nearly 1000 notes including over 300 in a blog posts subfolder and almost 100 in the snippets one. Despite Ian’s enthusiasm for OneNote and many powerful demos it didn’t at that time click for me.I tend to keep notes as text, HTML or markdown files in Dropbox.
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