How can I recover Notes data from Time Machine?

[fridayxiii]

Apologies if this is the wrong forum. Mods: move if needed...

I did a clean install of Yosemite to my MacBook and almost immediately after, deleted an important Note by accident.

I have a Time Machine backup from before the upgrade to Yosemite and delete action. Is there a way I can get the Notes data from this backup, even by copying some files to a flash drive or something similar?

I opened the Notes from the TM backup (at least I tried/thought I did) but only saw current info, like it was accessing my current Notes.

Thanks.

 

[NoBoMac]

The folder/directory

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes

Contains the binary database containing the notes. Can maybe replace that folder with an older version, copy/paste the contents of the missing notes to TextEdit, then restore current notes data folder, create new note with contents copy/pasted.

Maybe.

 

[fridayxiii]

Thanks for the reply.

I found some similar info via Google but the big problem is that I cannot find the Containers directory in my backup.

username/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes

The trail goes cold after .../library/... I see Compositions, then CoreData 🙁

 

[Bruno09]

Are you in the user's Library ?

I don't think so...

In Finder, menu bar / Go, press the Alt key to reveal the user's library.

Click on "Library".

Then, enter Time Machine interface.

 

[scf1234]

IT WORKED.

Are you in the user's Library ?

I don't think so...

In Finder, menu bar / Go, press the Alt key to reveal the user's library.

Click on "Library".

Then, enter Time Machine interface.