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My notes on my mac have disappeared and they aren't in my iCloud and there is no recently deleted folder. I don't think I have a time machine back up

I didn't delete them so I'm not sure how they got removed

MacBook Air 11", OS X 10.11

Posted on Mar 29, 2020 4:56 PM

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John Galt

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Mar 29, 2020 7:24 PM in response to lashour

First please confirm you are still using OS X 10.11 as indicated in your post. It's rather outdated so the following instructions are from memory.

Open System Preferences > iCloud, and de-select Notes.

When you do that the sidebar in the Notes app will indicate On My Mac instead of iCloud.

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