Notes wont sync between Iphone and Mac on Mountain Lion

That did not work for me either.

But I recognized that the following line appears in syslog, every time I'm trying to create a new note in the imap notes folder in m notes app.

Jul 26 21:34:12 server Notes[768]: folderProxy addNoteToRemote returned false

which might be indicating that notes is not able to put the new note to the server. This is confirmed by the fact that the new note appears under the recovered items in the "on my mac folder" alter on.

And additionally sometimes the following lines occurs in between (but not every time) -- strange

Jul 26 21:40:13 server sandboxd[810] ([809]): mdworker(809) deny file-write-owner /Users/paddy/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/NotesV1.stor edata-wal (import fstype:hfs fsflag:1480D000 flags:240000005F diag:0 uti:com.apple.notes.externalrecord plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Notes.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 24010898)

Jul 26 21:40:13 server kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(810) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd

Jul 26 21:40:13 server sandboxd[810] ([809]): mdworker(809) deny file-write-owner /Users/paddy/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/NotesV1.stor edata-shm (import fstype:hfs fsflag:1480D000 flags:240000005F diag:0 uti:com.apple.notes.externalrecord plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Notes.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 24010898)

I haven't notice dthe addNoteToRemote line on mine. I just noticed the mdimporter error. mdimporters are supposed to be for Spotlight indexing so I wouldn't think it would affect Notes ability to propogate. However, for me it does occur every time I open Notes or try to do any sort of add operation. And it's also weird that it's directly looking for a Notes.mdimporter that doesn't exist. Hence I wondered if the fails were related in that if it can't index it decides it can't update the Note as well, even though you'd think it should report but generally ignore a Spotlight indexing error when it comes to actually syncing the Notes to IMAP.

i am also unable to access the IMAP Notes on Mountain Lion's Notes application. If i create stuff in the IMAP category on the Notes application on the Mac, it doesn't show on my iPhone either. After a while of fiddling around, i get a pile of "recovered items" on the "On My Mac" section. These are all the things that have failed to work on the IMAP communication and eventually the Notes application resurrects it as a failsafe (?). i don't know what the problem is. i appear to have all settings correct. It's just Apple's screw up again. They seem to almost never get the **** IMAP stuff right. Mail in Leopart was punked. iPhone was fine. Then the reverse happened. Then the reverse again. Now Mail is fine on both, but the Notes app is punked. This is one of the primary reasons i PAID for this "upgrade." i want these features to WORK. Guess i'm paying to beta test again.

Anyone here also finding that the folders list is hidden when you close and reopen when Notes is full screen? Every time i close and reopen it, i have to choose "Hide Folder List" from the View menu (it's not checked). This is clearly another bug. A really SIMPLE THING TO TEST, Apple! i found it the first time i restarted the application.

Same problem. Same errors in Console.

As a related note, if i look at my IMAP account through its webmail interface, the Notes are present on the server. The iPhone end is fine. It's the Mountain Lion side that's punked.

Both my Notes and Reminders that are listed on my iphone as "On My Mac" do not show up on my reminders and notes app after upgrading to ML. Before ML they were there and sync'd automatically. Is there a fix for this?

Thanks so much for posting this. Pure luck that I saw it -- I happen to use Fastmail, too, and this appears to have fixed my syncing problem, as well. At the very least, all the old notes have finally synced up. Some of the new ones I created in the past hour have synced, but not all of them yet.

Note to others: the settings must be changed both on the iPhone (Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > fastmail > account > Advanced > Incoming Settings) and on the Mac (System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars > fastmail > Advanced).

FWIW, this suggests to me that a lot of users' problems with Mountain Lion Notes syncing are specific to their IMAP provider. The safest default account for new Notes would appear to be iCloud.

(btw, how did you know to try changing the port to 992?)

992 is a standard port used for SSL. My host actually is one digit off, which i get from their info. Still didn't solve the problem, though.

Fastmail uses port 992 as a workaround for broken IMAP clients.

Fastmail Support

Alternate namespace: Some IMAP software (e. g. Blackberry BIS, Apple Mail) has been known to have problems with the "INBOX" root folder path that FastMail.FM uses. You can work around that by changing to the "alternate namespace" ports. Change 993 -> 992 and leave the Root folder/path blank instead.

Source: https://www.fastmail.fm/help/remote_email_access_server_names_and_ports.html?MLS =LN-*&UDm=131

I'm having the same problem. I can't live without my old notes. Is there anyway to import these into Notes?

If I can't resolve this today I'll have no choice but to go back to Snow Leopard.

Update:

By signing out of iCloud and disabling notes in Google, I was finally able to get Notes to show "On My Mac" category, albeit empty. I created one test note:

http://imgur.com/fELj3

I then signed back into iCloud and renabled Google notes. Now all three show up!

http://imgur.com/bPFwR

But my notes from my iPhone are still missing from the Mac. 😟

I synced my iPhone via iTunes at this point to see if I can then see my iPhone notes on my Mac (or vice-versa, see the new "On My Mac" note I created in Mountain Lion on my iPhone) but it didn't work.

When I enabled iCloud again, Notes actually prompted me: "You have notes on your Mac, would you like to move them to the iCloud?"

I would love to buy that feature on my iPhone. I'd be all set!!!

Perhaps a future iOS build.

I'm only syncing Mail to iCloud -- not notes, so I'm really curious why my notes from Snow Leopard Mail simply disappeared when I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I temporaily turned on notes syncing and that didn't do anything either.

Miata2000 wrote:

I'm only syncing Mail to iCloud -- not notes, so I'm really curious why my notes from Snow Leopard Mail simply disappeared when I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I temporaily turned on notes syncing and that didn't do anything either.

Yeah, there's an issue here for sure. Notes not setup on a cloud service have gone away for some users (you and I included). Setting up cloud services post-ML install does nothing.

I'm going to sync my phone against a Lion install on another Mac to move my notes from hard drive to "cloud" that way. For the time being, ML doesn't have a way to do it (that anyone's discovered).

Someone named Robin gave a suggestion on another related thread that worked for me. Here it is:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4140230?answerId=19068486022#19068486022