Sticky Notes: How to recover notes after closing?

Anonymous
2010-04-13T18:05:32+00:00

When using Sticky Notes program to create notes on the desktop, you can't save the notes. You can minimize the notes, but if you hit the "x" or close, you lose all data. At least this is what's happening on my PC.

Is there any way to recover lost notes from Sticky Notes if I hit the "X" accidentally? I know you can copy and paste to and from other text editors and save that way, but what about staying in Sticky Notes to save anything or recover?

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Anonymous
2010-04-13T18:27:34+00:00

Your best chance to recover your data is to try navigating to the C:\Users<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes directory, right click on StickyNotes.snt, and select Restore Previous Versions.  This will pull the file from your latest restore point, if available.

I've discovered if you close the Sticky Note by right-clicking it on the taskbar, it closes the Sticky Note application.  However, next time you open Sticky Notes your data will return.  The same also applies if you leave the Sticky Note up when rebooting your computer.

Cheers,

Barbara

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-08-19T20:40:25+00:00

    It didn't work for me, can you help me?

    I tried to do all that but it doesn't show the sticky notes directory "/

    What shoudl I do?

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-08-20T15:06:06+00:00

    I couldn't see any option to restore previous version. Or are you talking about Shadow copies in windows. I don't have shadow copies enabled, can I still recover my old items in sticky note?

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-09-06T19:09:21+00:00

    Hi, I just had this exact same problem. How do I get to the first step? Where do I type in that code C:\Users<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes   Thanks so much!

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-10-09T06:25:30+00:00

    Your best chance to recover your data is to try navigating to the C:\Users<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes directory, right click on StickyNotes.snt, and select Restore Previous Versions.  This will pull the file from your latest restore point, if available.

    I've discovered if you close the Sticky Note by right-clicking it on the taskbar, it closes the Sticky Note application.  However, next time you open Sticky Notes your data will return.  The same also applies if you leave the Sticky Note up when rebooting your computer.

    Cheers,

    Barbara

    thanks buddy u saved me.....

    it works.....

    i will share with others  too......

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