Is there any way to restore the data in that file? It's already in the proper location, and I certainly haven't hand edited.
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After closing and re-opening Stickies with that one crazy one, all my notes were gone again.
#My stickies disappeared mac for mac
Having just gone through and worked out the kinks of this installation, I thought I would provide a guide for Mac users who want to run RoR using Crossover(the commercial version of Wine) instead of installing Bootcamp. I tried Stickies' File > Import Text, but that just loaded the raw binary format for all my old notes into a single new note, instead of really grokking the database and restoring the notes inside. Installation Guide for Mac users If youre not a Mac user, follow this guide. Simply putting the file in the location expected by the app is not sufficient, evidently. Maybe if I could read it using bash or node, but I don't know anything about the file format.Īnyway, for whatever reason, when I run the Stickies app, it doesn't show that data in any of its notes. I have way too many notes for it to be practical to manually copy-and-paste from that format, and I'm not even sure I can read it properly myself. It's embedded in an illegible binary file, whose format I know nothing about. That file exists, and both TextEdit and bash strings reveal that my note data is in there. The web tells me Stickies stores that data in a file at ~/Library/StickiesDatabase.
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It appears that data isn't actually lost. I don't know why, but when I upgraded to the latest MacOS (to 10.15.2, from whatever was the big release before it), all my sticky notes disappeared. I've been using it on this Mac for like 5 years.