How could I access the source code of a .one OneNote file?
I've tried to rename the .one file to .zip as what happens with .doc files in order to access their source code, but .one doesn't seem to work like that.
Also, I've tried to open it with Notepad++, but it isn't in a plain-text format.
I regard this as a programming question because:
I'm using content-editing-automation scripts (e.g. RegEx-related find and replace scripts). Accessing the source code of .one files helps me apply bulky automated edits on their content Using RegEx.
.one files aren't technically source code - they contain the data that describes the pages in a section and their content.
Opening them as text won't show you anything meaningful as they are binary data.
Microsoft has released the way this data is structured in .one files in the following documentation. You can use this to parse the binary file to obtain the information you need.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd924743(v=office.12).aspx
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/File-format-changes-in-OneNote-2016-for-Windows-a9129622-1755-470b-91e7-b2a461194036
The .one file format is super-complicated as it has to store images and all revisions, so it's binary and not XML-based like the rest of the office suite
That said if you do want to see the XML structure of the notebook or specific page content you can use OMSpy:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/johnguin/2011/07/28/onenote-spy-omspy-for-onenote-2010/
It works fine for 2016 Desktop.
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I'm trying to access to my iCloud Notes with a python script using pyiCloud framework, but when I try to list the notes it seems that Documents folder is empty. Does anyone know how I should make that?
>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes']['Documents'].dir() It returns:
>>> []
It sounds like you have an authentication problem that you can't get access to your Notes from the file storage (the UbiquityService). This issue might give you some more clues.
On the other note (!), I found the following a better way to get my Notes exported. I have tried a couple of ways mentioned around the web. Although there is no in-app solution to export Notes in a format other than PDF files, I have stumbled upon the following two solutions:
Export in Markdown (or in other formats in the paid version) via the Bear app. I found this way easier and of more quality in terms of keeping the formatting, attachments, etc:
Download the Bear migration Workflow script from here and follow the instructions.
[optional] At this point, you have the HTML files with inline encoded images. Use my script to decode images to get regular HTML files with the images in an accompanying directory.
Install Bear and import the exported files from Notes.
Export the files as Markdown, HTML, or whatever format you desire from File -> Export Notes within the Bear app. Don't forget to check the "Export attachments" box in the export dialog.
Export in HTML (and then convert to Markdown if you want) via the Notes Exporter app. The app gives you HTML files with inline encoded Base64 images saved with .txt extension (?!). Although I personally like this way as it generates output files that mimic closely the original Notes, the hyperlinks are missing in the exported files (it still keeps the hyperlink coloring though):
Download Notes Exporter from here.
Export Notes to the path you choose.
[optional] Rename file extensions to .html.
Voilà, now you have your Notes as HTML files with the same formatting and images.
Decode inline Base64 images and save HTML files with images saved in a separate adjacent directory using the script that I wrote for this:
https://gist.github.com/SHi-ON/945ea2272ea4bb29e13bd0305370da90
Hope this helps to give you an idea!
I have a folder with a large amount of .doc and .docx files, I would like to develop a python script to edit the tags of each file so I can find a file in the folder using the tags - thus making my life a little easier.
I am unsure of how to even start and was hoping someone could point me to a library or provide some sample code to help me get started.
I am not sure if the file extenstion matters because this seems to be a windows property (right-click file > Properties > Details > Tags > type in tags) but if the extension matters I do can change all the files to be .docx
The python-docx package provides methods to access most of the metatdata in a word file. The class docx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties in specific allows you to modify author, category, etc. I didn't see tags mentioned but if you do some more research i'm sure you can find it.
docx.opc.coreprops.CoreProperties.keywords can be used to update doc file tags.
Suppose we are migrating a set of MS Office files from (say) a Shared drive to SharePoint (eg SharePoint Online). Limited to Office 2007 onwards, so file extensions like DOCX, XLSX.
We see that the size of the file changes when it is saved to SharePoint - as certain metadata is added.
(Though file sizes of non MS Office files such as PDF or JPEG do NOT change).
These MS Office files are "containers" in which are placed a number of component parts - this situation can be viewed crudely by changing the Extension of an XLSX file (say) to ZIP, and opening it with WinZip.
For good sound integrity reasons we want to assure ourselves that the "File Content" component part has not changed.
How can we identify the component parts within those containers which represent the Content?
Are such component parts Invariant when when saved to SharePoint as described?
If so, are there any utilities which could analyse a pair of such files and confirm that the content is the same, or if it has been changed? Is there perhaps some checksum we could generate from both files and compare.
If no such utility exists what sort of environment would be best for creating one? - could it be done in VB.NET and/or C# for instance?
Thanks.
This previous post related to same issue, but does not provide the sort of answer we need. C# - Hash contents of MS Office documents without metadata
Interesting topic.
How can we identify the component parts within those containers which represent the Content?
within the docx you will need to assess each of the content files. Please be aware that the files within a docx are compressed using deflate. So you will probably have to inflate them. This is not only the document.xml and the document.xml.rels file but also:
- the header xml files (can be more then 1)
- header .rels files
- footer xml files (againa multiple files)
- footer .rels files)
- the media files (containing images)
You even have to check the core.xml file if SharePoint property demotion alters a field like title.
To summarise, you cannot compare the docx files at the docx level. You will need to unpack them and compare (use e.g. CRC32 or MD5) each of the "content" files.
I am not aware of utilities providing this functionality.
Note: if you just need to upload the files to SharePoint for archiving then placing them into separate zip files might be an alternative. This is of course only an option if you just need to store the content and do not expect the users to make any changes.
Paul
I have written a bit of automated code that checks a SharePoint site and looks for a ZIP file (lets call it doc.zip). If doc.zip is found, it downloads it, and then checks for a file (say target.docx). doc.zip is about 300MB, and so I want to only download where necessary.
What I would like to know is that given SharePoint has some ZIP search capability, is it possible to write code using CSOM (c#) to find doc.zip, and then run some code to retrieve the contents of doc.zip without downloading it.
Just to re-iterate, I am comfortable with searching for files in a folder on SP, downloading the file, and unpacking zip entries. What I need is to retrieve a ZIP files content on SP without downloading it.
E.g. is there a SP command:
cxt.Load(SomeZipFileQuery);
cxt.ExecuteQuery();
Thanks in advance.
This capability is not available. I do like the idea. Having the ability to "parse" zip files on the server side and then download the relevant bits would be ideal. Perhaps raise this on uservoice to see if others also find this us https://sharepoint.uservoice.com
Ok, I have proven yet again that stubbornness will prevail.
I have figured out that if I use the /_api/search?query='myfile.zip' web REST API to search for my file, this search will also match ZIP files that contain the file I need. And it works perfectly.
Of course there is added (pain) of parsing an XML response, but it works very nicely for my code example.
At least if someone is looking for this solution here it is. I wont bore anyone with code, as the /_api/search has probably been done to death already on other threads.
If we have been provided only the XMLs of the document (in input stream, unzipped manner, or in a byte array), can we detect the file extension via parsing XMLs? My motive is to know what particular node in which XML determines that this is DOCX, PPTX, or XLSX file?
I unzipped the documents and tried to dig and found this -
In \docProps\app.xml, application node defines it -
<Application>Microsoft Excel</Application> for Excel,
<Application>Microsoft Office PowerPoint</Application> for PowerPoint, and
<Application>Microsoft Office Word</Application> for Word.