“I usually create sticky notes on my MacBook to keep information that I often use to perform various tasks. While in call or in video chatting I keep marking important text in Sticky notes in my MacBook. But today all of a sudden I was not able to find Sticky notes present in dashboard that contained some vital information. I assume that Notes are lost from MacBook due to some logical error or these files may have become hidden. Now, how to find these lost notes on MacBook as Time Machine also failed to track them? Kindly suggest some useful tips to recover lost Notes on MacBook.”
Sticky Notes is an application text note that can be created on dashboard in MacBook. Just like on Windows system, Mac users have also been benefitted to create notes of text marking on MacBook to help keep reminders of something that users need to do.
Sticky Note can be created with simple steps as mentioned here:
Go to dashboard on dock or go to Finder. Choose Applications and select Stickies app. Stickies will get displayed in dock. Double-click on it to open. Type required text, if necessary you can change the color of a note with the help of Color option in its menu bar. And to alter fonts of typed text go to Font menu. You can create as many Sticky notes as you wish by clicking on New Note in Edit menu.
These Notes will be there on dock in MacBook till it is manually deleted. However, many users can encounter loss or missing of Notes on MacBook due to factors like:
- Incorrect Synchronization of Notes on MacBook with other iOS devices using iCloud functionality
- Invisible bugs associated with Notes application can make Notes disappear on MacBook
- Incorrect upgrade of Mac OS on MacBook can also create disappearing of Notes
If any Notes are missing from MacBook and contained any important text then user may feel depressed. But, here is a one stop solution for this kind of situation. Just employ any preeminent file recovery software on MacBook and easily retrieve lost Notes.
Sticky Notes recovery software:
Yodot Mac File Recovery is the proficient software to get back lost Notes on MacBook. Its robust recovery algorithms will neatly scan entire hard drive to find missing or hidden Sticky notes on MacBook as well as on MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, Mac Mini and Mac Pro computers. Using this tool, it is very simple to restore Sticky Notes on Mac computers operating with Leopard, Lion, Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion and Mavericks OS X versions. Along with Notes, this renowned utility can retrieve iWork files, Keynote files, Pages documents, Numbers files, archives and other file types from various storage devices along with Mac hard drive.
Procedural steps to bring back Sticky Notes on MacBook:
- On your MacBook, download and install Yodot Mac File Recovery software
- Run the application from Finder and wait till main screen appears
- Now, click for “Lost File Recovery” option as to retrieve lost Notes
- In next screen, select the drive / volume from which Sticky Notes are lost from MacBook
- As scanning process ends, recovered Notes and other files with be listed in two distinct view types - ‘Data View’ and ‘File Type View’
- Toggle between view modes and have a look at rescued Sticky Notes
- Then, save these files to known destination location on your MacBook by clicking on Save option
Avoid things like:
- Incorrect synchronization of Notes on more than one Apple device
- Be sure that content in Notes is backed up somewhere to avoid unexpected information loss
