Note This is a scenario where Notes app created a new data file and ignored the old data file and hence the Notes app was not able to show any Notes on my Mac. Now, I opened my Notes app and found all my notes up to date. Renamed NotesV7.storedata-wal to NotesV7.storedata.Renamed NotesV7.storedata to NotesV7.storedata-random.Before doing any changes to the files, as a safety precaution, I took backups of all three files to my Desktop. Now I made an assumption that this file should be the actual data file that the Notes app reads to fetch my Notes. The third file, NotesV7.storedata-wal was 16 MB in size. So I checked the file size for all three NotesV7.storedata* file and found that the first two files mentioned above were occupying less than 1 MB of space. I had more than 60 notes on my Mac and I was sure enough that the data file must be large enough. I found three files in this directory, namely: On the top menu, click Go > Go to Folder and type : ~/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Notes In the first case, I might not be able to recover deleted Notes but in the latter case, I can find the data file and make the Notes app to read the correct data file. I was under the assumption that the recent macOS update might have either corrupted my Notes data file or the Notes app is reading data from any new data file created. How did I recover deleted Notes (Mac) without any software? I do not want to use any third-party software to recover deleted notes on Mac. I got panic when I found that all my notes on my Mac were deleted and so, like most of us, I searched on the Internet and found that I need to use third-party software to recover deleted Notes on my Mac. I did not store all of my Notes on my Apple ID because that was my work laptop and I did not link my personal Apple ID to it. I had stored all notes on my Mac instead of assigning it to an Apple ID. However, I was able to recover deleted notes (Mac). I thought this update would make my MacBook Pro stable but I was disappointed when I found all my Notes got deleted. Some sources say that macOS 10.15.4 will be the last macOS Catalina update for MacBooks. Close Menu How To Recover Deleted Notes Without Software

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