What a hell of a day. I fell for a scam website leading to CC actions. I changed some gmail passwords (via browser) which then broke gmail on Outlook - I had to remove and re-add accounts (why can't I just update my password in Outlook for my gmail accounts?)

And now it seems that I no longer have permissions for my OneNote notebooks. The notes are still there but I can no longer edit them. Can't add or delete anything. I can't create new notebooks (weird behavior like the folder I'm trying to create them in doesn't exist when it does - I navigated to it). Seriously, WTF? My personal PC with my purchased SW? I'm not allowed to access / edit content on my own fucking PC with SW I purchased? Yesterday was fine but not today? WTF?

Is there an app like OneNote that I can use - I'm sick of MSFT. Perhaps LibreOffice has something? Or what do you guys use for keeping notes? I've been using OneNote because it came with Office 2016 (desktop version - I ain't touching the O365 onedrive version).

Evernote's free offering I've used for many years and is decent if you're okay with the limit on the number of devices. Joplin is free, open source, and looks good as well. There are several others like Zim and CherryTree.

Free version of EVERNOTE. God Bless !!!

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Originally posted by konata88:
What a hell of a day. I fell for a scam website leading to CC actions.

And now it seems that I no longer have permissions for my OneNote notebooks.

Is there an app like OneNote that I can use - I'm sick of MSFT.

Sorry for your troubles.
It's terrible that MSFT made you fall for the scam and hence causing all of your issues.

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Originally posted by VBVAGUY:

Free version of EVERNOTE. God Bless !!!

Free version is limited to syncing with three devices.

Thanks guys. I'll look into evernote. I only need support for one device at a time. I assume if I change PCs, I can transfer my single device support - or will that count as two devices?

I hope it's easy to export/import from Onenote.

Question after quick peek: does evernote store data only locally (except for when you sync two devices; but even, only locally on those devices)? Or does it store your data in the cloud like onedrive? It seems like it's storing data in the cloud - 60MB upload/month and assurance that they 'never sell your data.' Data in the cloud in a non-starter for me....

https://support.microsoft.com/contactus

maybe they can help you recover access

I think I found the fix. If so, MSFT really screwed the pooch here. Last post (re: ransomware protection):

https://answers.microsoft.com/...-99d758fe4ac9?page=2

So far, so good......

I don't know if it's microsoft's fault. I occasionally get that error message but it goes away on its own soon enough. I think it just needs to establish connections with my Microsoft account.

OneNote's data is stored in Microsoft's cloud.

If you're going to Evernote, I would suggest manually copying your notes page by page just to preclude what happened with your computer porting. (I think you're the one who has to pay like $500 to recover the lost files, right?)

I've been a paid Evernote user since about 2008. I just recently reverted my subscription to the free version just to keep the account open but I don't have any more notes there. I switched to OneNote about December 2000 and it's taken me about a year and a half to manually port my notes over. I wasn't in a hurry and I did have a lot of notes in Evernote.

Hey Rey, That message and symptom should never appear, even if it goes away on its own.

Not sure what connection needs to be established - I'm not logged in to any MSFT account.

My OneNote data is stored locally only (at least to my knowledge). I don't use onedrive and keep the service disabled. I am using OneNote 2016 desktop version, not the online subscription version that wants to use onedrive.

I do think it's MSFT's fault. Seems like this issue is between their ransomware protection as part of their security construct and treating their onenote.exe as a bad actor. See the link I posted above that seems to have resolved my issue.