If you keep your notes in the database only (you don’t write files to disk), your Notes & Settings file will be in ~/Library/Application Support/Notational Data/Notes & Settings, where the ~ is your user’s home directory. If you do have a backup, just restore it, overwriting the current version. Time Machine may be of assistance, or BackBlaze/Mozy/Arq, etc. If you do neither, you’re out of luck unless you have a backup of the Notes & Settings file from before the first time you ran the updated nvALT.That’s an ideal solution, as any tags created up to that point will show back up. If you store your notes as files in Dropbox, you can delete the Notes & Settings file in your Dropbox folder and restore it to a previous version using the web interface for Dropbox.If you sync via Simplenote, just delete the Notes & Settings file on your drive, and let the notes sync back down.
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#Vesper simplenote nvalt update#
More instructions on that as soon as I get the interim update out. When the final 1.0.8 comes out, it should be able to use the original database, which Simplenote and/or Dropbox will have kept up-to-date. You will, however, lose your local tags (Simplenote tags will be fine).
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If you import from Dropbox, you can store both preference files in the Dropbox folder, and your notes will show back up from there. If you sync with Simplenote and don’t run both versions at the same time, your notes will stay the same. In the meantime, I will soon be posting an interim version which switches the database it uses, creating a new one with a different name. I’m working on the next version of nvALT, but incorporating the changes is proving tedious and it’s going to be a little while (a week or two, I think). The database changes, and even though it offers to run anyway, either button quits the app. If you’ve run the newest version of Notational Velocity, you may have noticed that you can no longer run nvALT ( as mentioned here). Unimportant update: its an update, not an udpate.