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
    2017-04-07T18:27:11+00:00

    Somebody accidentally closed all my Sticky Notes. How can i recover the files i kept on it. i have tried visiting C:\Users\**\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes to restore previous versions but could not get my deleted data. Please is there nothing like undo? I really need all the information as this is tantamount to my daily,weekly,monthly and yearly activities

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-04-07T23:35:58+00:00

    Hiya,

    Supposing you don't have a backup (or you would be going there), and as restore didn't work -

    As a last-ditch effort you could try to save a copy of the .snt to your desktop, change the extension to .txt and see if you can read anything in there.

    Good luck!

    PS - As you know now, sticky notes aren't a good place for critical data. Before I knew better and started running daily incremental backups of my computer, I copied the .snt file onto a USB drive and kept it for safekeeping. If you don't have any say on backups, just do that. So sorry. I know exactly how you feel right now. Argh!!!  Good luck.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-07-22T14:13:05+00:00

    THanks!!  this was helpfull

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-07-24T15:09:16+00:00

    I don't have a sticky note directory in the microsoft directory. any help?

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