Stickies did not migrate from High Sierra to new M3 macbook

Beginning with macOS Catalina, the old digest StickiesDatabase located in your local Library folder would be migrated to the current Stickies application document format automatically upon launching the Stickies application. I don't recall that it informs you about that conversion. The now unused StickiesDatabase file would confusingly remain, though each old digest entry would be extracted into RTFD files located here:

/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.stickies/Data/Library/Stickies/

Each RTFD (Rich Text Format Directory) is a UUID string ending with the extension .rtfd which contains the Rich Text (.rtf) file of the original stickie entry.

If the Stickies conversion occurred, you will have files in the above location, and the following Terminal command will show that the conversion was done if it has a 1 result.

defaults reaad com.apple.stickies | egrep Dashboard

Hoping to revive this question. I also lost all my Stickies when I migrated from a 2014 Macbook Pro running High Sierra (10.13.6) to Sonoma on an M3 Macbook Pro.

The new machine does not have a:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.stickies directory. Instead I have:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.StickiesMigration and

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.StickiesMigration/Data

The old machine does have a file (or some kind of database thing):

~/Library/Containers/StickiesDatabase

Can this be copied and pasted somewhere on the new machine to revive my old sticky notes? Or should I try some other procedure?

This is fairly important - all my login and password hints for websites, subscriptions, software licenses, etc are on stickies on the old machine.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for taking the time to reply so quickly, and the comprehensive instructions in the video. Looks like this will solve the problem!

Indeed, problem solved. (Amusingly, of course, the password hint needed to access Github was on one of the old stickies ...).

Thanks again, most helpful.