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Stickies Database file location on Catalina 10.15

Could anyone help me find the location of the Stickies Database on Catalina? I have the file in my backup from Mojave but cannot find the file on Catalina (~/Library/). Thank you in advance.

Posted on Oct 10, 2019 11:16 PM

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Barrygum

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Posted on Apr 4, 2020 5:38 PM

I have discovered, through an all afternoon troubleshooting effort, that Catalina no longer uses the StickieDatabase file in the way it used to, if at all. The stickies are now found as individual files (for each stickie, with long indecirable names) in ~Library/containers/com.apple.Stickies/Data/Library/Stickies. They don't seem to carry the color or perhaps other formatting information, which are presumably in some other file in this general location. I discovered this because my Stickies app wouldn't open after installing Catalina. Hours on a chat troubleshooting with Apple did not fix the problem and they had me send system info to their engineers (who knows what I'll hear back). But they did lead me to this com.apple.Stickie folder which I explored and experimented with by transfering between users. I replaced the folder from that of a new clean user and then placed the individual stickie files - it now launches and I got my stickies back. Wrong colors but OK

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howarduns

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Nov 17, 2019 5:26 AM in response to bmohnsen

Bmohnsen, you solved it.

I expanded and looked at the imported data more closely. My data is all there. It will just take me some time to clean it up.

I will copy any important information to the Notes app.

Thank you very, very much.

\f0\fs24 \ul Computer-related

\f1 \

\fs8 \ulnone \

\f0\fs24 Apple Canada 800 263-3394

\f1 \

\f0 Apple Store (Consumer) (800) MY-APPLE / 692-7753

\f1 \

\f0 Apple U.S. 800 275-2273

\f1 \

\f0 apple.com/contact/phone_contacts.html

\f1\fs8 \

jayson45

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Dec 3, 2019 11:21 AM in response to ernst67

I found a solution to this. If you have the old stickies database file,

delete the new database folders
- ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Stickies
- ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Stickies.migrated
once these are deleted, ensure stickies application is quit,
copy stickiesdatabase to ~/Library
open stickies application. The database will be converted on opening.

howarduns

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Dec 15, 2019 4:22 PM in response to jayson45

Jayson, I love you, Bro. You saved me a lot of time. I had already started manually separating my stickies database which was imported into a single stickie note into separate notes. You saved me a great deal of time. I have about 90 stickies notes.

Howard

howarduns

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Nov 17, 2019 5:15 AM in response to VikingOSX

Viking, I am not trying to live in the past. I am trying to access some data. I would be very happy to move the data into the new app.

Howard

howarduns

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Nov 17, 2019 5:31 AM in response to howarduns

The find then replace all function is saving a lot of time in my file clean up. The initial file had thousands of lines. I have at least 100 notes. Some of them are lengthy.

Thanks again, Bmohnsen.

alliebhc

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Dec 4, 2019 9:00 AM in response to jayson45

This worked! Thank you, thank you!

Dec 4, 2019 1:16 PM in response to Michael C. Reilly

How does one delete the new storage structure?

Duchy777

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Dec 7, 2019 5:05 AM in response to jayson45

Jason - You're a star, thanks very much!!

Hadi_

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Dec 15, 2019 2:43 PM in response to jayson45

YOU'RE A BLESSING!!!!

howarduns

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Dec 15, 2019 4:23 PM in response to howarduns

Post1968

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Dec 24, 2019 12:22 PM in response to ernst67

It works! Thank you!!!!

japan308

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Dec 31, 2019 4:08 PM in response to jayson45

It didn't work for me. But I didn't have old database. I restored my Mac to factory settings as well and it still doesn't save any data anymore. Can anyone help me out here please?

Jan 18, 2020 4:32 PM in response to 0one2three

follow the instructions above, then empty the Trash. after i did that everything proceeded as advertised.

Jenny B

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Jan 24, 2020 7:28 PM in response to ernst67

my stickies keep getting reset. since updating to Catalina. I was able to get my old stickies back only for them to disappear again. this is so frustrating

Jan 26, 2020 4:58 AM in response to jayson45

Sadly, this didn't work for me. I tried a couple of times, following instructions carefully, but Stickies didn't import my old notes. What could I possibly have done wrong? Catalina 10.15.2

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