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Copying Notes from One Account To Another

I have two accounts on Apple Notes -- an iCloud and a Gmail account.

I want to COPY (not move) my iCloud notes over to the Gmail account just for a backup (since I don't know of any other way to make a secondary backup of my thousands of iCloud notes).

I highlight my notes, hold OPTION, and drag them over to the Gmail account. But it seems that the notes app on my Mac will not let me copy more than 69 notes at a time.

Is there any way for me to copy my thousands of iCloud notes to another account for backup? At least an easier way.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Mar 1, 2022 8:03 PM

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kidfromkrypton Author

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Posted on Mar 3, 2022 9:34 AM

I actually figured it out. For some reason, only one of my note folders would not copy more than 69 notes. But I tried copying notes from another folder and I was able to copy about 100 notes at a time.

The notes simply cannot be shared notes, and they cannot be in a shared folder. But if you highlight the notes themselves, and hold option, you can drag them right into a Gmail notes account (on a Mac).

Now I have a secondary copy. I will periodically re-copy them over to that account for back up.

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