How To Read Recovered Apple Notes From Crashed HDD
I attempted to use DiskWarrior 5 to repair the hard drive that crashed on the previous laptop I was using last year (Macbook Pro Mid-2010 7,1). I was running OS X 10.9 Mavericks for sure, and I'm almost positive I had updated to OS X 10.10 Yosemite by the time the hard drive crashed. DiskWarrior did not end up completely fixing the drive, but I was able to salvage most of the important files that I needed back.
The only thing that I have yet to get back that I really wanted to were my Apple Notes (not stickies). I was able to salvage a couple of com.apple.Notes folders with these files:
NotesV1.storedata
NotesV1.storedata-wal
NotesV1.storedata-shm
I've tried to add the .html extension and open them in Text Edit and Safari, and I'm seeing plenty of code, but none of my actual notes. I notice that at the top of the NotesV1.storedata file it says: SQLite format 3, which leads me to believe that SQLite could be used to open/decode what I have so that I can actually read it. I don't know anything about SQLite except that it can be opened and used in Terminal, and that it is already installed by default on my current computer which is a Macbook Pro Mid-2012 (9,1).
Here is a sample of what I'm seeing if it helps.
Can anyone who knows what I'm trying to do and also knows what they're doing give me step-by-step directions on how I can open these files with SQLite in terminal, or decode them, or something. And no, unfortunately I do not have a back-up of the hard drive anywhere, nor was I using iCloud at the time.