MacBook Pro Notes Application Crashing

Thank you for your response Rob.

I think I have this figured out. The problem lay in the high volume occupied by the CoreData folder due to the images stored in it.

The solution is as follows:

• Goto Library > Container > Notes (com.apple.Notes) > CoreData > Attachments
• This folder stores the images stored on the notes. For some reason the size of this folder was 219GB.
• I deleted the images from this folder (after taking a backup in another folder)
• Restarted the Mac
• The Notes worked (without the deleted images of course).

Note : There are 3 folders by the name Notes, the top folder is com.apple.Notes and this is of our interest. The other 2 are com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension & com.apple.Notes.WidgetExtension which are not of interest to us.

I had already taken the actions mentioned by you earlier but these did not help.

I suggest that apple looks at this. The images (screen shots) could be converted to a lower size to store in notes. Additionally in case of higher disk usage the Notes app should not crash instead it could render a small alias image in place of the original image with a message that the image size is too large.

Thank you for your support. I hope this helps the other community members as well.

Hi Trish,

Thank you for your response. There was no change in the behaviour even after updating the macOS.

One possible reason I can think for the notes to crash is that once during a course, I had pasted a few screen shots on the notes which may have made one of the note files very heavy.

Is there a way that I can access the files so that I can delete this particular file.

Thank you for your support.