Notes App note being backed up by Time Machine.

I don't get it... How do I restore?

I mean, can I restore it without Time Machine?

All,

I turned it around: not backing up Notes but backing up iCloud (and/or syncing it to another cloud provider).

Have a look at this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4910?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

For me, this is the fix. I have stopped searching for alternative apps (which don't really exist) and I'm using Notes again without really worrying about having lost any data when an empty Notes shows up.

Cheers,

Koen

Sorry for replying to an old topic, but I had the same issue where my Notes got deleted, and this was the key back to the them, via my Time Machine backup. These three data files, not anything else listed in this thread. THANK YOU, so much.

If you need to get back your notes, you first disconnect from internet... Then copy your notes to a safe place (desktop).. Then delete the folder at your library and then copy the safe folder back to notes at library... you can see one old file date..that is the main file you need to get back the notes.. You can delete the other 2 new dated ones as they are copy from icloud.. Now you can enjoy opening your note.app and you will see all your old notes are back

Hi,

Thank you very much William Lloyd, your advice work for me.

Best,

Leo

This worked for me. I was able to copy the valuable data from the note I was missing (after re-launching notes from the backup), paste the selected text to Pages, reconnect to the internet and paste the missing data back to my current note. Thanks William!

I don't have "containers" within the folder labeled library. Am I looking in the wrong place?

I didnt find any better way..I did it to my father with TeamViewer,so dissconnecting from the internet was not an option.So i logged off from iCloud on his machine and did restore,work flawless.

Unchecking notes from iCloud didnt help,only log off.

This works..remove the existing files, restore the 3 files mentioned below, then reopen Notes. However before reconnecting to the network you must update the last modified time of the restored notes to the current time so that iCloud does not overwrrite them.

If you dont have hundreds of files you can do this by simply by opening each note and and making a minor edit such as adding a space.

cheers

William Lloyd wrote:

So the actual database that you want is a Core Data database.

You would need to restore the contents of your ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes directory.

There are 3 files in there:

NotesV1.storedata

NotesV1.storedata-shm

NotesV1.storedata-wal

I think if you restore that directory to a point in time you should be able to recover the notes. However, because it syncs with iCloud, there is the possibiilty that they would be immediately deleted again from a server-side command.

Thanks for this!!!

I followed these instructions and it worked.

I disconnected from the internet first.

Coppied the files to my desktop.

Then just coppied and pasted them ontop of the current files, replacing them.

This restored my notes that I had lost.

Then I coppied the note that I wanted to keep.

Pasted it in as a new note.

This gave me two versions on the same note.

Then turned the internet back on, and it deleted the old vesion, keeping the new version.

Thanks again!!!

I was able to use Spotlight and search for the note I lost, and it brought up the name of my deleted note, which I cut and paste into a new note. Not sure how far back it goes, and if it had been updated, not sure what would have happened.

Thank you! School lesson notes restored!

This was way long ago, but did you ever find out? I found the files as well, but I don't understand HOW to restore them.

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one. In Finder hold down the option/alt key while selecting the Go menu item. Select Library. Then go to Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes directory. Copy them to that location.