I recently updated to 10.10.3 on Mac Book Pro, and discovered that ALL of the notes I kept in Notes were gone. I've been backing up regularly with Time Machine, but can't find "Notes" as an app. on backup disk. Any help appreciated. Thank you!L
This procedure will revert the whole Notes database to a previous version. It's not possible to restore individual notes.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item named "com.apple.Notes" selected. Quit the application if it's running. Move the selected item to the Trash, then restore it from a backup that predates the unwanted change. If you back up with Time Machine, enter it and select the snapshot from which you want to restore.
Log out or restart and empty the Trash.
If you synchronize Notes with iCloud or another network service, the notes you restored may be immediately deleted after you restore them. In that case, temporarily disconnect from the Internet, for example by turning off your broadband adapter, and restore again. Copy the contents of each note to a document in another application, such as TextEdit. Reconnect to the Internet. If the notes are deleted, recreate them from the TextEdit document. They should then synchronize to the network.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
Thank you for your help, but I cannot find applications on my backup disk, and am thinking maybe I did not set up Time Machine Correctly. 😟 Not sure what to do. I can only locate backed up files. I have trashed notes as you suggested, but really not sure what else can be done.
You don't need to find applications. You need to follow the instructions in my earlier comment. If those instructions aren't clear, please specify what you don't understand.
OK, think that I have figured this out, and found the backup snapshots, but am getting this message: "Notes can't be modified or deleted because it is required by OS X."
That's because you're not following the instructions. You're trying to restore the Notes application, which you can't do and would not help even if you could do it.
Lost Notes kept in Notes app. on 10.10.3 Update
