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I really like iCloud and how it keeps my iPhone and Macs in sync, but I have one question. How do you back up Notes?
In Calendar and Contacts, there are export options so I can export and back data up in case iCloud goes wonky, but I don't see such an option in Notes.
Thanks for any suggestions.
iMac 24' flat panel, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 4 GB RAM, 50 GB HD
Sorry, but unless you have old itunes and old lion mac os x, these are just remnants of the past. they won't get re-synced or updated as you use notes. At this point there is unfortunately no way to backup your notes that are on icloud. No way.
It's time to write to Apple a feedback requesting this essential option.
... many of us have hundreds of notes not willing to be lost. We need offline backup/restore.
konagal wrote:
I need to BACKUP IPHONE NOTES: So how does a person who has no idea what you are talking about (how to do all the computer steps) on how to backup and find the notes backup?
If you can determine where the Notes database lives, backup/restore that. I'm not longer using Mountain Lion, so I have no idea where the files exist in that OS.
It is pretty much a whole thing, at this point. Based on what people have posted, there is now no way find a single file per note, as far as can tell. It's been several years since I used that OS.
I am actually using El Capitan now and was asking about that hoping someone could answer for that. Noticed it is harder to backup Notes with this version on the computer. I wanted to backup Notes on my iPhone because I had to erase everything. Noticed that after checking iCloud backup it DID NOT BACKUP NOTES after upgrading to El Capitan. Only backed up to the date I upgraded. So, my question relates to El Capitan and iPhone 6 plus
Every once in a while, I manually back-up all of my notes, one at a time, to a folder that Time Machine knows about. That's enough of a pain that if I fumble-finger a note to be bad, I'm lucky if I can get close to the current note.
How can an operating system that recognizes that we need, need, need Time Machine not work Notes the same way as it does other critical data?
You can use copytrans contacts in order to back up your notes as seen here:
http://www.copytrans.net/support/how-to-backup-iphone-notes/
How about just emailing them to yourself via the send by email option on the bottom of the notes..
Best.
Ah! Found it. It's still hiding in Mail. : )
Thanks much.
Very nice! Thanks much for your help!
You might want to backup this as well:
Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/
PLEASE help me with doing that, icloud is not working for me, its no backing up my stuff.... Many thanks!
Just found a program called TouchCopy12 using the demo mode seems to work will try it out for the next week and repost. Hope this helps..
Thanks! I'm not sure it can transfer back though. Similar to PhoneView which I did buy and love.
I don't the "On My Mac" section - Not sure how to create it or why it's not there.
Any info on how to create?
I have Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
the .externalrecord files are not your notes. They are the spotlight previews of the notes. The notes themselves are in a sqlite database file.
Then, where is the database file?
How do you backup Notes?
