My Notes Disappeared & Replaced with Deleted Notes

I opened my Notes today to find that all of the ACTIVE notes have been replaced by DELETED notes. See attached image.


It's like I am looking at Notes Trash. I am not on iCloud and not synching in any way.


Is there any chance an overnight update to Big Sur OS caused this? How can I recover my active notes?!?!


Please help!



MacBook Air

Posted on Mar 18, 2021 11:21 AM

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Posted on Mar 19, 2021 1:54 PM

Hi there Enachi,


We understand that your notes have been replaced with deleted notes in the Notes app on your Mac. Let’s look into this together. 


Since you do not sync your notes with iCloud, do you sync them with another email provider or are they only stored on your Mac? Do you see your notes in the Recently Deleted folder in the Notes app on your Mac?

About accounts and folders in Notes on Mac


Do you have these notes on any other devices? If so, are the notes showing as expected?


Also, do you back up your Mac with Time Machine? If you do, follow the steps here to try to restore your notes:

Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac


Take care!

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Mar 19, 2021 1:54 PM in response to Enachi

Hi there Enachi,


We understand that your notes have been replaced with deleted notes in the Notes app on your Mac. Let’s look into this together. 


Since you do not sync your notes with iCloud, do you sync them with another email provider or are they only stored on your Mac? Do you see your notes in the Recently Deleted folder in the Notes app on your Mac?

About accounts and folders in Notes on Mac


Do you have these notes on any other devices? If so, are the notes showing as expected?


Also, do you back up your Mac with Time Machine? If you do, follow the steps here to try to restore your notes:

Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac


Take care!

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