Mavericks Deleted My Notes

I repeat, it was working properly. It can't back up usable files if all there is to back up are corrupted files. Garbage in, garbage out. Why are you working so hard to deny what the Apple techs told me? I have a good idea they know what they are talking about. Why are you working so hard to argue the i arguable. Why are you pretending that backup us 100% fail safe? Backups can only backup what is on the computer. If the computer is corrupt, they back up the corrupt. Backups don't determine that what they are backing up is corrupt, they just back it up. They arey not the perfection you are trying to sell. It's a good idea to have backup, but not a good idea to depend on it to never fail.

So, you are saying that Time Machine has never succeeded in backing up your notes over the last year (or more)

I doubt that very much.

Just how far back in time did you look, 1 hour? 1 day? 1 week?

You don't understand how Time Machine works, your description is (I'm sorry to say) nonsense.

Did you go back in tme and verify that of all the dozens or even hundreds of version of the files were bad, or did you just assume that they were?

Backups can only backup what is on the computer. If the computer is corrupt, they back up the corrupt.

Time Machine backs up what is on the computer, and keeps what was on the computer as well. It's a history of files not just a copy of the current file.

Are you seriously getting all upset over this? Are you seriously saying the apple techs don't know what they are talking about? Because everything I've said here was told me by a Genius Bar tech or other Apple tech. I'd advise anyone coming here for answers to ignore you completely because you don't know half of what you think you know. Thanks, but I think I'll stick with what the experts tell me not what some wannabe expert guy hanging out on the internet says.

Do as you please.

I had to come back to this topic just to unsubcribe since a certain someone was contributing a whole lot of nothing to your problem.

If you've skimmed through the previous solutions that worked for everyone else and tried them to no avail, your notes might be lost for good 😟. For future reference, I was only able to recover my notes because I had my Gmail account linked to the application, you might want to try doing the same. The only other option I'd suggest at this point would be checking your iCloud.com account and seeing if theres anything visible on the site, a few of mine were. I'd also try to salvage whatever you can from your timemachine drive depending on wether the entire drive is corrupt or just portions of it, and then wiping it and backing up your current harddrive asap if you haven't already.

Oh and speaking of future references, next time you get a reply from someone living under a bridge I'd suggest ignoring them and continuing on... ...like so! Good luck Tazamaraz!

Thank you Zetro. It took me a few to realize what I was dealing with but now that I know this thread has been taken over by the dweller under the bridge and as such is worthless, I too will unsubscribe. Just so you know, your suggestions were very helpful and exactly the same ones suggested by the Apple people. Sometimes you just have to accept your information is gone and move on. The techs and I have and so have wiped the corrupted drives in question, including the backup drive, run the new backup and I'm now making new notes and occasionally recreating ones from memory. I now have ridiculous redundancy in having the original, a copy going to an external drive as well as a time machine driven backup drive. I've learned single backups are not the holy grail and fail a lot more than some want to admit. Thanks again and maybe see you on an uncorrupted thread sometime. :)

Same issue and I upgraded straight from Snow Leopard to Mavericks. Did a full hard disk backup ahead of time, as well as a complete sync with both my iPhone and iPad before proceeding (I'm not an iCloud user). At the risk of demonstrating my ignorance, would it be possible to restore my Notes simply by plugging in my phone and re-syncing, having the phone override the iMac? I realize I can email myself the Notes from the phone, but trying to avoid the manual effort, if possible.

The phone does not sync with your Mac, there is no 'override'

Go to iCloud.com and see if your notes are there, if they are they can be restored, if they are not they can't.

To whom it may concern, here's another solution that worked for me:

I upgraded from 10.6.8 straight to 10.9.2, and also didn't have the old Notes, after the upgrade (had no V1 files as suggested in pg. 1 of this discussion).

I saw the old notes in Time machine, and started to restore them, but then something weird happened, that seems unconnected to this discussion, but finally, it is... so keep on reading:

Somehow, when I emptied the Trash, all emails were gone from Mail, as if vaporized, suddanly. I was in SHOCK, at first, but then calmed down, and tried to resotre from Time Machine all my mails like this:

Through an old discussion (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191534?answerId=15671348022#15671348022),
I restored all mail, to the ~/Library/Mail folder (all V2 folder),

then deleted all External...{something} files,

Reopened mail, and agreed to Mail import/conversion dialog box (haven't seen this dialog box before, even after upgrade to Mavericks),

After a few minutes, I had all messages + ALL NOTES [in notes].

Conclusion: something probably didn't update correctly, on the system upgrade. But it seem to do a smooth migration/upgrade if you restore your Mail folder, delete any artifacts, and reach the migration wizard when you open Mail.

Goodluck.

how did u get it to work it wont go to the site for me it says it cant find it

Hi Denico, thanks for your message about deactivating notes in iCloud and then reinstalling - this worked a treat! After tearing my hair out with other methods, this simple step took seconds and I finally have my notesback, phew!

Thanks you sooooo much!!! This worked perfectly! I was going to cry when I thought all of my notes were gone! You are a life saver!! THANK YOU!!!!!!! 🙂<3

all you have to do to get the library folder to show up after you click user name is...

1. close your finder window and re-open a new one.

2. look at the tip top left hand side of your computer screen and you should see the word GO, click on it.

3. click on the word home

4. look back up at the tip top left hand side of your screen and click on the world VIEW

5. click on the show view options

6. then check show library folder

7. close then reopen finder, then go to your username and you should be able to see library!

I hope you get your notes back!

None of these folders are here...after containers there is no .com blah blah...Will look at the rest of this thread and see if anyone else has same problem. I MUST get my notes back. Am so upset. There was so much very very important stuff in there

No no no no I cant I simply cant lose those notes for good. Please someone help me. I am furious that Maverick has done this. There was so much important work in there