
Unfortunately, my local notebooks were not synced with the server, so they were lost. Installing Evernote from the App Store replaced my old version of Evernote with a clean one which synced with the server. Install Evernote again and find your files Why did it happen? Download Evernote from the website if you had installed Evernote from the App Store 5. Hit restore and you will find them in Finder. The green files there are your Evernotes.

If you don’t have Time Machine enabled, then you’re out of luck. Open up Time Machine and go back to an hour ago when you still had the folder. Go to Macintosh HD/Users/ yourUsername/Library/CoreData Open Finder again and you will see grayed out files. Hit Command + Spacebar to bring up spotlight and search for TerminalĪfter opening terminal, it should look like this:Įnter this line in Terminal and hit enter defaults write AppleShowAllFiles TRUE How to Recover your Local Evernote notes 1. Turn on hidden files. Find all local files missing. Have a heart attack. I go to the app store to download Evernote only to find that I can only “Install” it. Evernote starts acting up and won’t let open.ģ. Given that they were in a local notebook, you can imagine how important they were to me. Commence panic.

I am not the first nor the last idiot to delete all my local Evernote notes.
