How to change default path of Microsoft onenote temporary storage
Hello friends
This discussion is more useful to those people who are database administrators, computer operators, and people scanning and playing with different types of text and images. In our another blog, I will soon post the trick of converting images into text with around more than 90% accuracy level.
If you are using Microsoft onenote you may notice that the path it uses for temporary storage is in the C drive as mentioned above in the screenshot. when you go in your C drive and locate this folder after frequent usage, it will occupy very much space in GBs sometimes. you can see in my example in another screenshot below.
And the fact is that when you clear up C drive buy some default tools this is smartly skipping in so many maintenance activities. I discovered this fact when my C drive was not being emptied even though I tried so many times cleaning up my C drive. But when I discovered folder sizes software and calculated relative sizes of all C drive folders, I just came to know that the culprit was my heavy documents temporary storage occupied by Microsoft onenote 2016 version.
When I deleted this folder it started showing me the error mentioned in the following screenshot.
And not only this, I had to reinstall and regenerate all the junk I had cleared in the above steps to generate memory of one note again. It costed me double the time of organising my all of the tabs as you can see in the photo. So I discovered another solution of changing default path of temporary Storage for Microsoft onenote.
This process should Ideally be done when you open Microsoft onenote 2016 first time so that in future all documents are diverted to their changed default path.
To change default path of temporary storage follow these steps mentioned below
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Click on File menu on upper left first side ribbon
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Go to options
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To save in backup option
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See the screenshot ago, and note down to different parts on upper and lower side, For backup folder and cache folder respectively
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Create two different folders for both path in other than C drive wherever you wish
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Press modify button at both places and change Path of both of above folders.
This process will also give you advantage when you sometimes format your PC and Re install onenote and work again on the same documents before formatting. It may recognise from the default path all the settings that you have done over a large period of time and save your time again from preventing their customizations.
