Where are Notes in Time Machine?
Mistakenly deleted info in my Notes (didn't delete). I'm going in to the time machine to find notes and restore. How do I find Notes? Or put them in Finder?
MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
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From Discussion Thread 7819887 in this forum:
Your iCloud notes are *not* stored in the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes location. Only your 'On My Mac' notes are there.
Instead, look in ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes .
Steps to restore your lost text or note:
- Quit the Notes app, turn off your WiFi (disconnect from the Internet so your old notes don't sync!)
- Copy ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes to another place (like your Desktop)
- Restore ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes from your TM backup
- Open Notes
- Copy any text you need to recover, and paste into another document, e.g., TextEdit.
- Quit Notes
- Delete ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes folder
- Move the group.com.apple.notes on your Desktop back to ~/Library/Group Containers/
- Open Notes
- Copy the text from TextEdit back into your new note
- Turn back on your WiFi / internet access
