Lost critical notes from Notes program

Been using Notes across all my devices for years. Suddenly the notes on my MacBook Pro quit backing up to iCloud. So my notes in iCloud were not the same as those on my MacBook Pro. Attempting to correct the problem I managed to convert everything to the iCloud version, which is lacking some absolutely critical notes. Is there any way to recover?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.12

Posted on Nov 8, 2021 8:58 PM

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jetway

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Nov 8, 2021 9:06 PM in response to Mr. Bacon

If you have a Backup that includes notes then you can try that. If not, no.

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