Recover Deleted Notes on Mac

How to recover deleted notes on Mac from Time Machine

Whenever you deleted or lost your important notes on Mac, you can try to restore them back from Time Machine first. Requiring no additional apps, it is a quick and easy solution to recovering deleted or lost note, which was nowhere to be found. To perform Mac note recovery, follow the steps: 

1. Open Finder and hit the following keys on your keyboard – Cmd, Shift, G. (or just go to the Go > Go To Folder Menu in the top status bar).

2. Copy and paste ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.notes/Data/Library/Notes/ and hit enter.

You will be presented with the following folder which usually contains about 3 files. (Our lost data was stored in the "NotesV1.storedata-wal" file.

3. Make a backup of these files to a folder on your desktop, renaming each file to ".html". When asked if you would like to add the extension, click "Use .html".

Once this is done, the files should look something like this (with your browser icon as the file icon – my browser in this instance is Firefox hence the orange icon).

4. Double-click the files to open them up in your default browser, and you will be presented with the notes text in HTML format. Simply Cmd + F to find and recover the note text you were looking for!

Credit: sourced from www.easeus.com

I ran into this situation after I deleted my google account from internet accounts on the Mac, notes were deleted as part of the deal, without my acknowledge. Thankfully, this little tutorial saved me, my notes were recovered with some garbage characters, but 90% are good.