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
    2013-06-09T02:47:31+00:00

    Strongly recommend using ClipCube. It saves notes and everything that goes on your clipboard, even after a reboot. It's a kind of 'Swiss Army Knife' type of tool that I couldn't imagine living without once having used it. http://clipcube.wikispaces.com/

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-05-26T17:55:20+00:00

    Hello,

    you might also find the data in here, at least I found them there: 

    %localappdata%\microsoft\windows sidebar\settings.iniIn my case I had to transfer the data from one computer to another, so I just copied the file from the old computer into the corresponding folder on the new computer.Regards

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-05-25T22:19:17+00:00

    Hi i was wondering if you could help, i found the sticknotes directory and right clicked on StickyNotes.snt but there was no "restore previous version" option. Is there any other way of accessing lost sticky notes ?

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-04-17T20:40:57+00:00

    I could not restore the previous version as no restore points were available.

    Instead I double clicked on the stickynote.snt

    This opened the file in notepad.

    I then use Find to search for items I knew where in the closed note.

    While I had to hunt some I did recover the data from the closed sticky note.

    Thank you!!! Had the same problem and your solution was the only one that worked!!!

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