Q: Notes: Any way to back up notes & folders?
For 4 years I have been using notes extensively, for my important research, admin and records, owing to it’s simple convenience. I have thousands of notes, categorised by many folders and subfolders, that I add to daily. I have become increasingly concerned that I need to backup to somewhere more solid than time machine, but the only option I can see is to export every single file as a pdf, which would be insanely laborious and messy. I’m worried that I’ve unknowingly set myself an impossible task by using notes for everything.
Does anyone have any idea how I can back up all my files to an external source/ drive, at once and on a regular basis? And is there anyway to back up my notes intact with folders and subfolders?
MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Jun 30, 2016 7:39 PM
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Archive or make copies of your iCloud data - Apple Support
otherwise Time Machine offers a snapshot of the note when it was made in the event you need to restore it. Other than manually organizing your notes and maintaining a backup you need to initiate I don't know if it can be done, and even doing this I would think would not be as robust as what TM is doing in the background.
Posted on Jul 1, 2016 5:51 AM