How to recover Sticky Notes in Windows 10/8/7

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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As you all know,Sticky Notesis a handy Windows 10 app. Users can stick notifiers to the desktop with that app. However, deleted notifications don’t go in theRecycle Bin. Thus, users seemingly can’t restore deleted notes if they need to.

Steps to recover deleted Sticky Notes

1. Open the StickyNotes.snt File in Windows 10, 8, and 7

Yet, users can still recover Sticky Note’s desktop notifications from a StickyNotes.snt file inWindows 10versions earlier than build 1607 (the Anniversary Update). That’s a file which stores note content for the Sticky Notes app in Windows 8 and 7 and earlierWin 10build versions.

Users might find deleted note content within that file. This is how users can open the StickyNotes.snt file inWindows 10.

Then the StickyNotes.snt file will open in the selected application as shown directly below. The file includes a lot of jumbledtext. However, Sticky Note users can also find the actualtextof deleted notes within that file.

Copy the actual notetextwith the Ctrl + C hotkey so that you can paste it back into a sticky with the Ctrl + V hotkey.

Users can also recover recently deleted Sticky Notes in more updateWindows 10versions by opening the plum.sqlite file at: %LocalAppData% Packages Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_8wekyb3d8bbwe LocalState.

Open that file in MS Word, or alternative word processor, as shown directly below. Then you might find thetextfor some deleted notes near the bottom of the document.

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2. Recover Deleted Sticky Notes With Outlook

Sticky Notes now synchronizes notes with Microsoft accounts. Consequently, users can now recover deleted notes with Outlook 2016 and theWindows 10Mail app so long as they have a synched MS account set up.

ClickDeleted Itemsin Outlook 2016, and press theRestorebutton. Then users can select to move deleted notes back into your Notes folder. Thereafter, the notes will reappear in Sticky Notes.

3. Back Up Your Sticky Notes

Sticky Notes users can also back up their notes. Then they can recover deleted notes with the backup copy. This is how users can back up their note storage in Windows.

So, users can restore deleted notes by opening the StickyNotes.snt or plum.sqlite files, keeping backup copies of the notes, or moving erased notes from Outlook’s Deleted Items folder. In addition, users can automatically back up Sticky Note’s storage file withFile History.

How to recover Sticky Notes in Windows 10/8/7#

Steps to recover deleted Sticky Notes#

1. Open the StickyNotes.snt File in Windows 10, 8, and 7#

2. Recover Deleted Sticky Notes With Outlook#

3. Back Up Your Sticky Notes#

How to recover Sticky Notes in Windows 10/8/7

Steps to recover deleted Sticky Notes

1. Open the StickyNotes.snt File in Windows 10, 8, and 7

2. Recover Deleted Sticky Notes With Outlook

3. Back Up Your Sticky Notes