I've searched through forums, google posts, other sites, everything. I've had a heck of a time trying to figure out how to restore my local notebooks. The only exception to the 'no problem' has been restoring Evernote local notebooks. I just replaced my own solid state drive and reinstalled pretty much everything without problems last week after my original 2011 MBP hard drive crashed. Ok, so I may not be the swift-ist, but I'm certainly not the slowest at figuring out tech stuff for a non-techie. In short, the more diagnostic tools we have, the better. If you had to go in and find a needle in a haystack, it could be done by someone who is tech savvy with some patience, but I think the system could be better. I have done it several times in the past, though mainly with especially problematic notes (long story) that I already knew well. Restoring a note from the online note history is easy, and from Time Machine I might copy the folder onto my hard drive, search for the note using Spotlight, and copy/paste the content from there if I wanted to restore a single note.Įasy? Not really, especially since (as I recall) they changed the note titles on your disk from the recognizable names to 'content + number.' Ideally (in my opinion) this kind of functionality would be built into the app, because I consider this process rather important. I know there is a Windows article, but I have not seen a Mac one. Perhaps an Evernote employee can speak to the restore process. I have not checked it recently, so I don't know the current status.

Furthermore, there is no easy way to restore only one Note or one Notebook.Īt one time the EN Mac Backup/Restore process was documented in the Evernote KB, although there were some errors in the process. Rarely does Evernote or anyone bother to explain that it is NOT as simple as you would think as doing a normal Time Machine Restore of Evernote.

That is all there is to it.īut RESTORE is a challenge, regardless of how you have backed it. Just plug in an external drive and turn on Time Machine. In addition, Time Machine ought to take care of your backup automatically.

What is evernote copy