Q: Restore icloud notes?
I somehow deleted all notes when deleted iphone backup. I tho't when I restored from iTunes bkup it would restore notes, which I backed up the DAY BEFORE. When I first opened notes for one second I saw the list, then they just disappeared!
I looked up in search in discussions, but all RESTORE NOTES appear to be answers to old OSX 2-3 years ago, which don't help me today with ElCapitan and Notes v. 4.2
When I open Notes it shows "iCloud" only at top left. I have done backups to this iMac desktop computer and to the cloud YESTERDAY, but cannot find out where all my former notes are nor how to restore. Please give DETAILS.
I tried going into Time Machine and yesterdays backup to applications/NOTES, and hit "restore" that gives error: "Notes.app can't be modified or deleted because it's required by OS X". Then I was going to try what someone else said to go to the path to Notes (username/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/) and tried restoring, but didn't work. There are 3 files in there, and I don't know what to restore, so tried all 3 and kept both, and nothing happened. The 3 names there were: NotesV6.storedata, NotesV6.storedata-shm, NotesV6.storedata-wal. Well, now my folder today I tried to delete the duplicate, but can't so have both those names and I guess older ones that have "(original)" title at end. When I close and open Notes nothing is there, but small single note I added in TODAY.
Sorry this is hard to explain, but I just want some step-by-step directions how to get my old notes back please. Thanks ahead!
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)
Posted on Jul 2, 2016 6:57 PM
Go to iCloud.com and select iCloud Settings. When that page loads, look at the bottom left side under Advanced and see if you can restore from there using files.
Posted on Jul 3, 2016 2:50 PM





