Stickies Database file location on Catalina 10.15

I thought that Jayson45's solution was not working for me. But it turned out that my Stickies were there, just not visible. My guess is that this is because they were collapsed (only title bar showing) when I upgraded to Catalina. Using the Stickies app Windows menu to select and then expand the stickies made them visible. (In fact, it may be that they were migrated fine at the original upgrade, and just not visible from the beginning.)

Just found this discussion and want to let you all know that I found success migrating my Stickies Database from El Capitan to Catalina 10.15.2 by following your instructions. With one minor variation. The file from El Cap was as follows: StickiesDatabase. In order for Catalina to recognize the file I had to De-Capitalize both the S and the D. Like so: stickiesdtabase. Then it worked just fine.

There are 2 Library folders on the computer. It's possible that you are looking in the wrong place.

You will need the Library folder that is in the Home folder - which by default is invisible. Tricky!

In order to make the Home Library folder visible you need to select the home folder in list view. Then go to the menubar>View>Show View Options. You now have the option to "Show Library Folder". Once you select that box, the Home Library folder will be visible like all the others.

You could also try searching for the file by it's exact name. Even when the Home Library is invisible, it will still take you to the file and even show you the path to it - but Library will be sort of ghosted out to represent that it's an invisible folder.

If you find the .rtfd stickies files you can quickly import them back into Stickies. You just need to find the folder that has the .rtfd files and use shift to import all the files at once. You lose the customizations, but you do get the actual files back.

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

• I do not have folder in library with that name? (~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Stickies)

John

I wouldn't advise renaming.... just drop it in the user library as it was found / rescued!

Use File - Import Text ------ and add each Stickies file

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

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.

This worked! Thank you, thank you!

How does one delete the new storage structure?

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