OneMore User Data

September 8, 2025

Last updated on September 1, 2026

Per-user OneMore information is stored locally for your Windows account in two locations:

 

  • %APPDATA%\OneMore - contains shareable files
  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\OneMore - contains the OneMore.db SQLite database file

 

The two important files include Settings.xml and OneMore.db. The Settings.xml file stores your user preferences set from the OneMore Settings dialog. OneMore.db is a SQLite database used to store favorites, layouts, hashtag references, and table formula variables.

 

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Back it up!

If you have a regular backup job, ensure that both OneMore folder locations are included in your backups: from both %APPDATA%\OneMore and %LOCALAPPDATA%\OneMore

 

If you want to share your configuration across multiple machines, first ensure that all machines have opened the same notebooks.

 

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Warning

If you want to reference the OneMore directory from multiple machines, ensure that every machine has opened the same OneNote notebooks. Otherwise, various features may fail. For example, Favorites may fail because some internal IDs are unique to local machine sessions.

 

Use OneDrive

Windows has a feature called "symbolic linking" that creates a pointer from one location to another. When you try to reference a file or directory in the first location, Windows will automatically follow that pointer and silently redirect to the alternate location. Here's how to do it using the mklink command.

 

  1. Close OneNote
  2. Move the folder %appdata%\OneMore to OneDrive
  3. Open a CMD prompt
  4. cd %appdata%
  5. mklink /j OneMore <path-to-folde-on-OneDrive>

 

If you regularly reinstall Windows or use temporary VMs, just create the symbolic link before you install OneMore.

 

 

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