On OneDrive itself, the default storage on free accounts is 5GB and you can buy extra (100GB is $2/month, and a Microsoft 365 license gives 1TB at $70/y~=$5.8/mo) as you need it.

The apps keep complete copies of all notebooks you have open in the app, so you have full offline access to stuff, and all edits are made to that local cache, which the app tries to sync separately. You won't see that structure in the web interface though, OneDrive abstracts it to look like a single file (that you can't treat like a single file or like a normal folder, yes, it's dumb). The 'master copies' of notebooks are stored as folder structures on OneDrive - the notebook is a folder, section groups subfolders and the sections themselves. lnk files there as placeholders and to facilitate sync, but the actual local copies are kept in an cached format that isn't the one the Win32 OneNote app uses to store the notebooks locally or how the notebooks are store on OneDrive. mht.Locally, the notebooks are not stored in your OneDrive folder - the app keeps. It’d be shared but never show up in OneNote UWP.Īlso, “export” does nothing for you here: OneNote UWP as of July 2018 cannot open files, neither. Without the step of opening the Notebook in the online version of OneNote, this did not work for me.

At this point, back in OneNote, you can choose “More Notebooks…” and your Notebook will show up.

Go to and open the newly shared Notebook by clicking on its name.

Right-click the Notebook again and choose “Notebook Sync Status…”, wait until the Notebook is fully synchronized.

It should automatically be shared with your MS account as the “owner”, which suffices. You’ll get a notice that your Notebook is now syncing to the new location. Be sure to be signed in with the same account you’ll be using in OneNote.

Right-click the Notebook you’d like to move over, choose to “Share This Notebook”, choose “OneDrive” (in my case “OneDrive – Personal as this is not a corporate account), give it a “Notebook Name” and tell OneNote 2016 to “Move Notebook” to your OneDrive folder.

Open OneNote 2016 (should also work with 2013, 2010).

If, like me, you have a number of OneNote 2016 Notebooks, you may be stumped as to how to transfer these for use in (UWP) OneNote.

And OneNote 2016, the desktop client, is going to stay as-is. Microsoft have stated that Windows 10 OneNote, the UWP version that installs from the store, is going to be the only one receiving new features. Here, we can see the OneNote for Windows 10 data files.

Onenote for windows 10 file location