Edmund Chan
Level 1
(5 points)
Q: 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)
iDriss_5555
Level 1
(116 points)
Hi Edmund,
If you unfortunately have lost important notes after you upgrade, you have 2 options:
- Get them back from a Time Machine backup:
To do so, choose Enter Time Machine from the Time Machine menu, or click Time Machine in the Dock. And use the timeline on the edge of the screen to locate a version of the Notes storage folder that just precedes your deletion. Click Restore to restore the selected file, or Control-click the file for other options. When you next launch the Notes app, your missing notes should reappear.
- Get them back from the Storage file:
To recover your lost or deleted notes from storage on Mac, at first, 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 !
