Somehow a note has vanished from my notes (not deleted, checked trashed). Checked other devices and iCloud and not there as well.
I want to go into my time capsule and retrieve an earlier date and retrieve the note. Notes show up in mail. When I enter time capsule and in the notes part of mail of an earlier date - I do not see the note? Perhaps I am not doing it right.
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Open Time Machine
Click on your home folder on the left....the one that looks like a house
Navigate using the timeline on the right of the screen to a date when the note was on the Mac
Open Library
Open Mail
Open V2
Open Mailboxes
Click on Notes.mbox to highlight it
Click Restore
Close out of Time Machine
If the note was on your Mac on the date that you chose, it will be restored.
Important.......if you choose to restore Notes.mbox from an earlier date, new notes that you have entered since that date may be replaced with the Notes that were current on the backup date that you choose. I cannot say whether you will have an option to keep your current, most recent notes or not.
Thanks - I "enter time machine" and I cannot find the home folder on the left.?
When I enter - the screen becomes what was open on my screen before I enter - ie. finder, or inbox, etc.
I believe I understand how to navigate to a date.
But then would be stuck on how to open library.
Thanks for your help!
Close any open windows.
Then, start by clicking the smiley face Finder icon down on the dock.
That will open a basic Finder window. On the left side or sidebar of the window, you will see categories for Favorites, Devices and Shared. The Home folder is under Favorites
If you do not see these, the option to display the sidebar has not been enabled. Normally, it is by default.
Click on the View menu at the top of the screen, then click Show Sidebar
Made it further (libraries was hidden) - I do not see any notes.mbox file?
You may be looking in the wrong library.....there are two.
You must start from the Home folder (looks like a house), then open Library from there. When you click on the Home folder, things will look like this:
Thanks - I tried this and the last backup of notes.mbox was april despite being backed up in may. When i restore the file, the note was still missing. Which I do not understand either.
It was weird last night - my phone was acting weird and going really slow. I was going in and out of settings and notes, and it just slowed right down and froze. So it is like that note I am missing just disappeared - poof. I can't figure out where it would go? Any other ideas?
When i restore the file, the note was still missing. Which I do not understand either.
When you are already in Time Machine, you can select a file and specify that all backups of that file will be deleted from the backup history.
I'm sure that you did not do this, but I know of no other way that all instances of a file would just disappear.
Not sure about the iPhone difficulties.....that might be a question for the experts in the iPhone support forum. The link is just below if you need it. Good luck!
how to retrieve a backup of a note from time capsule
