Notes have disappeared

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Notes have disappeared

Hi,

My MacBook Air had High Sierra as the OS - I had a number of issues with the OS and was eventually "forced" to have Mojave installed. All my data was restored from a Time Machine backup using Migration Assistant.

Everything looked OK, until I opened Notes and all my data was gone. To the best of my memory the notes were "On My Mac" in other words they were not on iCloud.

I have searched through various items on the Apple Community forums and cannot find how best to retrieve my Notes data?

Have tried restoring (with no success):

(a) the files in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.notes/Data/Library/Notes/

and

(b) ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes

Anyone have any ideas?

Kind regards,

Antonio

Posted on Nov 21, 2019 12:50 PM

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Answer 1

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antoniofromthemead Author

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Nov 22, 2019 11:39 AM in response to dot.com

Hi,

Thank you <dot.com>>

Unfortunately I tried multiple snapshots (from Time Machine) of the 3 files in that folder but none of my attempts succeeded.

I then copied the a few snapshots from the entire contents of the folder called:

~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes

and finally successfully recovered all my notes - YEAH!!

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dot.com

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Nov 21, 2019 1:26 PM in response to antoniofromthemead

The name of the folder you have shown is not quite correct -- it should be ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes (Notes not notes)

Have you looked in all the various Time Machine snapshots for the items in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes folder???

Good luck...

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dot.com

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Nov 22, 2019 2:00 PM in response to antoniofromthemead

Congratulations!!!

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