Apr 26, PM. Apr 27, AM. Apr 27, AM in response to maedi In response to maedi. Related Q was discussed here, but that does not help me. I tried all manners of things to reveal hidden files, but there is nothing resembling a stickies database in either my current library folder, or, more critically, in any of my timemachine backups. That's the database for the Stickies application, not the Dashboard widget.
It's not hidden. If it's not at that location in your home folder, it's been moved or deleted. Apr 27, PM. Apr 28, AM in response to maedi In response to maedi. Select it in the results it should be at the top. The application is in the folder that opens. Click Utilities , then Terminal in the page that opens. Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return :.
Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot. Anonymize your user name. Apr 28, AM. Make sure you are looking in the correct Library folder. The one to look in is the hidden one in your home user folder. To access that one quickly, while in Finder hold down the Option key and open the Go menu - an item named Library will be added to the list.
Select it, and the hidden Library folder in your home folder will be opened. The StickiesDatabase file should be in it. Jun 26, PM. Jun 30, AM in response to maedi In response to maedi. Thanks to this post I was able to restore most of my stickies, don't know why this happened but I had left my Mac on uploading to YouTube, overnight all of my Stickies were gone when I went to open Stickies this morning nothing was there.
Any ideas what could of caused this I'm pretty sure its not a Virus nothing else seems to acting weird or strange. Just as of last night I copied and pasted something from my stickies closed Stickies as normal just left my Mac on for the uploading "No one touched my Mac overnight" this morning I needed to copy and paste and like I said Stickies went back to like brand new usage telling me "how to use notes" for first time..
Jun 30, AM. I cannot find my database in my original hardrive or even one that supports my new install. I tried your terminal suggestion and here's what it says:. Jul 18, PM. By the way, I know, finding Library folder could be a bit tricky. So here's how to do it:. Well, this has happened to me more than once!
And this little trick has come handy both times as I usually have a lot of info on my dashboard stickies! And I think everybody does. It's just because they're always there for quick notes!
I had an account login on one of them talk about security and privacy! It felt like "what's the point of a clean installation if I put everything back in it!? And I thought, I've needed to recover dashboard stickies a couple of times, I might need to again! Maybe just try quitting and starting Notes again?
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