(Archived) What happens when a notebook is unshared?

[jmayson 10]

For those not aware, it is possible to search for shared notebooks with your favorite search engine.

Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ae ... rl%3Ashard

Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Aeve ... or%3Ashard

I have found a number of useful shared notebooks. What happens if the owner decides to stop sharing? Do they immediately vanish from my Evernote client or are they stored on my hard drive?

[gazumped 11,652]

Turns out a shard is not a shared notebook - see http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=28086 and below..

OK - crashed and burned; I totally agree it's not possible to find those long-established sites by searching. It's not possible to search site:http://www.evernote.com/pub/ to get any results anyway. If those are the public shared sites, what comes up under site:http://www.evernote.com/shard/ ?? There's 69,200 of those today as against 67,000 and change when I last looked. Something seems to be leaking out into the big wide world...

-that was me in the other thread, and I got the numbers wrong - the total hits seems to be pretty constant.

The jury's still out on what generates a shard, and no-one's jumped in yet to trumpet an answer.. but to answer your query I did my own testing and once you unshare a notebook it drops off the radar immediately.

[jmayson 10]

Thanks. I wasn't sure if I could share a notebook with myself so I didn't try that. It did cross my mind though.

So lesson here. If you find some good useful information in a shared notebook, copy it to your own notebook.