MacOS Sierra deleted my local Notes on my MBP. How to recover them?

Dear All,


After installing MacOS Sierra, all my Notes stored locally on my MBP are gone. The only Notes in the Notes.app are those stored in iCloud account. Does anyone know how to recover the locally stored Notes in El Capitan?


Thanks

Edmund

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 21, 2016 10:08 AM

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Posted on Sep 25, 2018 9:28 AM

I thought my Notes were gone too, but it was just an interface change. I don’t store my notes in iCloud and the default location to display is iCloud. It looked like I had no notes, but by going to View -> Show Folders and then selecting "On My Mac", I got them to display. I then chose View -> Hide Folders to get it looking like it did before.

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