all my highlights and notes disappeared in ibooks

hi

I did nothing different, except when I opened the iBooks to look over my notes, all the highlights and notes are gone. What can I do? I had more than 20 chapters that I went through in a book and was going to re read my notes. I need those notes back.


ana

Posted on Jul 17, 2020 11:26 PM

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Aug 4, 2020 8:10 AM in response to anafromlos angeles

I have the same problem. I spend days highlighting a Books document only to find my highlights suddenly disappear. Because it is a textbook, I can no longer efficiently review the material. When I contacted Apple Support a few months ago, I was told that that the problem *might* be the use of anti-virus software - I am not uninstalling that. Also, even though all settings are correctly configured, Books does not appear in my Time Machine - Apple had no solution for that. As a last resort, the Apple representative suggested I constantly close down and open the document as a way of *saving* the highlights, as there is no traditional "saving" function for Books documents. I did that this week, and it worked, only to find today - yet again - that the highlights suddenly disappeared. So, it appears that as an application, Apple's Books application cannot function as intended, and Apple does not have any idea how to fix that. I wish I had a solution to this problem, but I offer my experiences as a way of framing the issue in case someone else can provide a solution.

Aug 4, 2020 2:16 PM in response to AlexUserofApple

Thanks Alex.

I dont use antivirus, I just bought a brand new ipad pro for the purpose of using ibooks with the pen so I can read my notes on pdf's as I record them in a soundbooth. I always close and reopen the document(because it constantly freezes) but it takes so much time out of my day to do that that I end up not doing the work. The books also dissapeared yesterday, so I basically lost everything.


What else can I use instead of iBooks? I need to be able to highlight and write notes on pdf's.



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