Reuben Feffer

Q: Notes App Keeps Making Recovered Items Folder

The Notes 1.1 app on my iMac keeps creating a Recovered Items folder under "On My Mac" whenever I launch it, putting a duplicate in it of whatever note I was viewing under "iCloud" when I closed the app.

 

Why is this happening? It's very annoying.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010) 12GB RAM

Posted on Sep 23, 2012 3:02 AM

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  • by Joey!! 【ツ】,

    Joey!! 【ツ】 Joey!! 【ツ】 Mar 15, 2013 4:17 PM in response to William Lloyd
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    Mar 15, 2013 4:17 PM in response to William Lloyd

    Yes, exactly William. But it comes back the next time a sync issue occurs.

  • by splurben,

    splurben splurben Mar 15, 2013 5:11 PM in response to Reuben Feffer
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    Mar 15, 2013 5:11 PM in response to Reuben Feffer

    So, currently, my Notes are working on iCloud and Google IMAP, but not Lunarpages IMAP (Dovecot IMAP4v1).

  • by Yi2011,

    Yi2011 Yi2011 Mar 19, 2013 7:42 PM in response to Reuben Feffer
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    Mar 19, 2013 7:42 PM in response to Reuben Feffer

    Any suggestion for a note app similar to Notes that sync across Mac and iOS? Evernote is great, but I am looking for something more barebone. I looked at Notefiles, but it also had problem with iCloud sync.

  • by William Lloyd,

    William Lloyd William Lloyd Mar 19, 2013 7:52 PM in response to Yi2011
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    Mar 19, 2013 7:52 PM in response to Yi2011

    Justnotes syncs with Simplenote on iOS.  It's quite nice and quite simple.

  • by Yi2011,

    Yi2011 Yi2011 Mar 19, 2013 8:01 PM in response to William Lloyd
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    Mar 19, 2013 8:01 PM in response to William Lloyd

    Thanks, I'll check it out.

  • by PrimaryFeather,

    PrimaryFeather PrimaryFeather Oct 27, 2013 9:50 AM in response to Reuben Feffer
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    Oct 27, 2013 9:50 AM in response to Reuben Feffer

    Just for reference: OS X Mavericks has arrived, without any enhancement in this regard. Notes still are duplicated.

  • by Joey!! 【ツ】,

    Joey!! 【ツ】 Joey!! 【ツ】 Oct 27, 2013 10:21 AM in response to PrimaryFeather
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    Oct 27, 2013 10:21 AM in response to PrimaryFeather

    If you delete the recovered folder, does it come back? I haven't seen my notes get duplicated on Mavericks yet, and I was experiencing this issue a lot on Mountain Lion.

  • by PrimaryFeather,

    PrimaryFeather PrimaryFeather Oct 27, 2013 10:25 AM in response to Joey!! 【ツ】
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    Oct 27, 2013 10:25 AM in response to Joey!! 【ツ】

    It has come back once, I think the second time I started the app on Mavericks. I'll keep an eye on it, though.

  • by PrimaryFeather,

    PrimaryFeather PrimaryFeather Oct 27, 2013 10:27 AM in response to PrimaryFeather
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    Oct 27, 2013 10:27 AM in response to PrimaryFeather

    Ah, and again. It suffices to start "Notes", make a few changes, close and restart. Took about 30s to reproduce. :-(

  • by Sarfraaz,

    Sarfraaz Sarfraaz Mar 2, 2014 10:28 PM in response to PrimaryFeather
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    Mar 2, 2014 10:28 PM in response to PrimaryFeather

    I seem to have found the reason for this behaviour in my case. Hopefully, this should help those interested in fixing it in Notes app.

     

    I am using OSX Mavericks [ 10.9.1 ] though.

     

    I have notes on MacBook Pro synced up with my Google account [ GMail ]. I notice that this creates a label called "Notes" in my GMail account. It probably uses this to sync up the notes through GMail.

     

    I also happen to sync my GMail locally with the MAIL app and wanted to stop syncing most of the labels in GMail. Once I disabled syncing of "Notes" label, immediately upon editing any item in Notes app, I started seeing this duplication. I tried reproducing this by enabling and disabling the "Notes" label in GMail. And whenever this label is disabled I always got duplicates [ and quite a few of them, depending on how much data I enter in my Notes item ] [ I use Priority Box feature in GMail though ]

     

    My understanding of this problem is that, the Notes app tries to sync these items to the server. And since I disabled syncing anything that uses "Notes" label in GMail, Notes app failed to sync items.   Any item that is failed to sync up with the server is stored locally in "Recovered Items" folder. And if you are viewing your Notes items through the "All Notes" folder, then you will see the list of failed items present in "Recovered Items" folder too. And this gives the illusion of multiple duplicates.

     

    Try to fix your Notes app connection with your server [ either iCloud or anything else that you use ] and probably it might solve this issue.

  • by spycoops,

    spycoops spycoops Jun 25, 2015 5:06 AM in response to Reuben Feffer
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    Jun 25, 2015 5:06 AM in response to Reuben Feffer

    SOLVED:

     

    You cannot do delete that Recovered Items subfolder within IOS. Go to Notes on your Mac and delete it there (hit delete key) and it will sync across devices. Poof! Gone.

  • by alienimplant,

    alienimplant alienimplant Aug 7, 2015 11:22 PM in response to FuzzySS
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    Aug 7, 2015 11:22 PM in response to FuzzySS

    How did you report it and get confirmation that it was a duplicate?

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