Import or convert Stickies database or txt file into Sonoma
I have old backups from Catalina but using Time Machine doesn't open them in Sonoma. Any tips on converting or importing old backups?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.12
I have old backups from Catalina but using Time Machine doesn't open them in Sonoma. Any tips on converting or importing old backups?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.12
@ VikingOSX, and all Victims
This happened to me too and VikingOSX hints are very helpful. But only close...
I got a new Macbook, Sonora, out of the box and tried to migrate by Time Machine Backup from a Mojave Macbook.
Beside other issues the copied StickiesDatabase in the ~/Library folder was present but will never be migrated. Any attempts fail. I guess Apple can not imagine somebody will do an upgrade (by 5 Versions) from 10.14 to 14.
In addition ~/Library/Containers/Stickies is hidden, like a lot other things (~/Library/Containers/StickiesMigration is not, but useless)
Next: under ~/Library/Containers/Stickies/Data is a .plist file that cannot be deleted or renamed.
So - a lot of obstacles!
~/Library/Containers/Stickies/Data/Library/Stickies can be deleted, so the initial stickies can be cleared off.
Luckily a got another macbook present with Ventura. Here the process worked:
If you had the old digest format StickiesDatabase in your ~/Library folder and ran the Stickies application once on Catalina, it would have extracted individual digests and wrote them as UUID named Rich Text Directories (RTFD) containing that digest content in a .rtf file. The original (and unused) StickiesDatabase remains in its original location, and the extracted digests are now here:
/Users/username/Library/Containers/Stickies/Data/Library/Stickies/
You could also run Stickies on Sonoma and it would either do the same treatment of your legacy StickiesDatabase digest or detect that the migration had already occurred by checking its .plist and do nothing.
defaults read com.apple.Stickies LegacyStickiesMigrated
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The formatting for a TM Backup under macOS 10.15 Catalina would have Normally have been HFS Journaled / GUID Partition Mapping
macOS 14 can read and write to HFS Journaled / GUID Partition Mapped Drives
Nothing has changed in that regard
Now, if the TM Backup under macOS 10.15 is using some other Non Native macOS drive formatting
All bets are off
If your new Mac inherits your backup history
Transfer your information to Mac from another computer or device
How to recover files backed up with Time Machine under macOS Catalina?
This is the way:
Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac - Apple Support
Thank you but doesn't work due to a change in formatting of OS backups.
Import or convert Stickies database or txt file into Sonoma