My Android phone has a couple of notes apps, and my mac has, of course, the horribly-lemon yellow Notes.app, Stickies, and even Reminders can be used, not to mention TextEdit. I use Dropbox on both and avoid iCloud for various reasons ( some related to security), but I’ve always found syncing notes a problem. Having an Android phone and Mac computer…not what intended…and syncing between them can be awkward. Change the ‘File Format:’ option at the bottom to ‘Application’, give the app a snappy name (‘findNotes’ ?), then choose your Applications folder as the destination before hitting ‘Save’. If everything checks out fine, then hit ‘Command-S’ to bring up the ‘Save’ box. If there are no errors, hit ‘Command-R’ to run it. With the Editor open, paste this into the window (note, this is slightly different from the command above, as we have to tell AppleScript how to use the code):ĭo shell script "cd ~/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Notes strings NotesV1.storedata | grep body | open -f" It lives in the /Applications/Utilities folder, but you can access it simply by clicking on Spotlight and typing Apples. To do so, we’re going to use the Applescript Editor. However, if for some reason you either want or need to keep using Notes, you might try saving that command above as its own little App that you can keep in the Dock (beats having to dig out or remember the Terminal code all the time). The resulting TextEdit window can be searched or scrolled through for your missing text.ĭue to this problem, a lot of people are giving up using Notes.app altogether and switching to alternatives like Evernote or nvALT. It’s all one line, so copy and paste it as a whole, then hit ‘return’:Ĭd ~/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Notes strings NotesV1.storedata | grep body | open -f If you need to recover the text of any note that’s gone missing on your mac, try pasting this into Terminal.app. I hope that helps, let me know if you have any trouble.There appears to be a bug in Apple’s Notes.app in OS X 10.8 that sometimes causes notes to disappear. Simply copy or move it out of the directory to a safe place. You should back that file up before replacing it. If you do write files to disk, whether it’s Dropbox or elsewhere, your Notes & Settings file will be in that folder. If you keep your notes in the database only (you don’t write files to disk), your Notes & Settings file will be in ~/Library/Application Support/Notational Data/Notes & Settings, where the ~ is your user’s home directory. If you do have a backup, just restore it, overwriting the current version. Time Machine may be of assistance, or BackBlaze/Mozy/Arq, etc.
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