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So my main system failed me on Christmas ironically. Anyways, I am certain its the motherboard, which means I need to change the motherboard and it won't boot into windows because of a hardware change most likely. So I plugged in my ssd into a hard drive dock and got the ssd to show on my other system. I got everything off of the ssd onto another drive, except I can't find where my sticky note file is. I looked online and online said it would be either in appdata/Microsoft/roaming or it would be in the packages folder. I did find where it has the name of sticky notes but my file isn't there. So the 2 locations they said online didn't have my sticky notes. I really need it. I tried calling up Microsoft support and this was to advance for them as they were not trained in data apparently. I also seen this thread:

How do I get the old sticky notes back?

This thread didn't work for me as StikyNot.exe and SNTSearch.dll isn't in system32. I feel like I have tried every thing I can and seen on google to no avail. So you guys are my last resort, else I am just done for I guess. So please help anyone out there. Thanks in advance.

Sean
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So I figured out my own problem as a you tube video showed the answer. So to get back your sticky note from a drive, go to C:Users\your name\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Microsoftstickynotes\LocalState

Then locate a file named:"plum.sqlite" and open that as a notepad document. Don't change anything inside here but rather just copy. Anyways, scroll through and find your information and just copy and past to a destination of your choice.

Sean
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The above answer by Sean would work for most people, but I had an even specific situation where I didn't know the text I was looking for. It was an application ID and I had pasted something else on top of it. Here's what I did,

  1. I went to C:Users\your name\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Microsoftstickynotes\LocalState

  2. Found three different plum-sqlite files, using the find option in notepad, opened the these files and searched for the text that was used to overwrite the desired text.

  3. Once you find that, you can see an id value associated with this text. Copy that and now use find with this id value, you will see the id value will be present in multiple instances, one with the original text that was replaced.

Hope this helps someone!

Rohan Chakkadath
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