I just opened up my notes app on my MacBook, and all of my notes were gone. I had been using it maybe ten minutes before and all my notes were there. I only have one notes account, they are not hidden, I didn't update my iOS in that time, and I don't have any of my notes backed up to my iCloud. Is there any way for me to get my notes back?
MacBook Pro with Retina display
Restore them from your Time Machine Backup.
If not iCloud, do you synchronize Notes with any other network service? What backups do you have?
Hi saclark18,
If it was not synced to iCloud & if you do not have any backup, you can try to recover your lost notes from storage on Mac.
To do so, you need to find Notes’ storage location at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/. Enter the path string in the Finder’s window. And you will see the Notes folder, inside this folder, you should see a small assortment of similarly named files with names such as NotesV2.storedata.
Copy these files to a separation location, and add an .html extension to them. Then, open one of the files in a web browser, and you will see your current and the deleted or missing notes. At last, copy and save deleted notes to a separate location. And done !
Hope this helps you,
Cheers !
All my notes are gone
