Mavericks Deleted My Notes

IN reference to my previous reply, I was not able to drag and drop into the new NOTES app BUT I was able to open each note and forward it to myself via email. Which is just as good, in my estimation. I just needed a copy of each one to stop panicking 😉

Nope, still doesn't work. I tried the path from 2012 and it no longer exists. Digging around the folders I found plists for Notes in my work folder and gmail, dated Dec 2013 and Nov 2013, but I have no idea how to open them.

Still hung up....

Thanks.

Darin

Caitlin said-

I have the same problem, but when I'm in finder and I click my username, there's no library folder...

I had the same problem, and couldn't see my Library folder. Mavericks by default DOESN'T show user's library folder, but it can be seen by following the steps below:

1. Open a new Finder window

2. Navigate to your Home directory by selecting the Go menu and clicking Home (⌘-Shift-H)

3. Select the View menu and click Show View Options or by using ⌘-J

4. Check the box next to Show Library Folder

From http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/mavericks-easily-make-user-library-folder -visible

Hey...

I have no file named V1. There are three files in my folder. They are called "NotesV2.storedata" and "NotesV2.storedata-shm" and "NotesV2.storedata-wal". Can you help?

Thanks

That's because you are looking for V2, not V1

I guess I don't really understand what to do with the files once found.

Then don't do anything until the person who suggested it explains.

Why don't you have a backup, this would be simple if you did.

I am NO expert, by any means, in fact, quite the opposite, but I was able to find not only my missing notes but also my missing To-Do list that used to be to the right of my calendar so I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself, lol.

Do what Feefer suggested above (COMMAND,SHIFT, H in a Finder Window and then check the View Library box in View Options) that will finally bring up the LIBRARY folder where everything has been hidden from you. That whole iCloud thing didn't work for me and I couldn't open or do anything with the V2 files in that format either.

If you click on Library and scroll down the folders, click on MAIL, then V2, then MAILBOXES then NOTES.mbox, in there you should find folders labelled with single digits (I think this might be the number of notes contained in them), DATA, and long strings of letters and digits. I just clicked on each one until I found each note and once opened, I moved those specific files to a folder on my desktop and from there emailed them to myself. The notes themselves consist of a number followed by .emlx

I can't promise that this will work for you. Mavericks seems to have done different things for different people. I hadn't upgraded my iOS since Snow Leopard. GOOD LUCK!

And in response to Csound1, yes, it is always a good idea to do a back-up before downloading these new upgrades, and intermittently so we don't lose things but let's be honest here, sometimes we forget and I don't know how helpful a back-up would have been in this case.

pandorazfruitcake wrote:

And in response to Csound1, yes, it is always a good idea to do a back-up before downloading these new upgrades, and intermittently so we don't lose things but let's be honest here, sometimes we forget

We'll disagree then, not having a backup is the users choice, and it is a very very bad one.

I don't know how helpful a back-up would have been in this case.

It would have allowed for a simple restoration of notes (and anything else) how does that 'not help'

I can tell you how my recent crash was not helped by my time machine backup. The time machine continued to back up after I started having problems. If I was clairvoyant and could have seen that it was the beginning of terminal condition I would have unplugged immediately and my backup would have been fine. But like most people I struggled to fix it thinking I had backup to fall back on should the problem prove to be terminal. But my back up was backing up corrupted files, data, etc as the problem grew. When it became apparent it was time to go from scratch then restore, what I was restoring was corrupt and caused a replication of the problem each time until I took it to a Genius Bar and they explained that backups aren't always the infallible answer everyone seems to think they are and explained about backing up corrupted files. I now can't trust backups so I've just put photos, documents and music on CDs, creating new ones once every year only if new photos, docs or music have been added. My backup drive runs once a week, but I'll never trust it or rely on it again.

Time Machine keeps sequential copies of your files for months, years if there is enough space. If you backed the files up using Time Machine they are still there.

Did you look back in time?

I didn't, the Genius Bar did. It was all corrupt, according to the genius.

Then you can not continue to back up as you are now until you get Time Machine working properly. Backups don't just corrupt themselves, and an unreliable backup is no backup at all.

Have you ever checked your own backup (not the Genius Bar, you yourself)

It was working properly. It backed up what there was to back up, corrupt files. That's what I've been saying. Backups aren't fail proof. They don't always work. You can't rely on them to always be your savior. There are times when they are worthless. I've had backups work perfectly and I've had them be worthless. My last one was worthless.

If it was working properly it would be restorable!

You do not have a functional backup system, why are you making excuses for it, your backup was not restorable, isn't that convincing enough?

Leave it as it is if that is what you want.