Notebook deleted, trash empty, but have 15MB exb folder. Can I restore it?

[izaxfuzoru 0]

My note has gone in Evernote Windows app and Evernote Web. Trash is empty. But, I have some file in this folder C\...\Evernote\Evernote\Databases:

- blah.exb (17MB)

- blah.exb.cardviews (15MB)

-and etc

 

Can someone convert thats file to .enex file? I want upload them. I wanna pay you.

 

[gazumped 11,659]

Hi.  The database file you have will be an old copy - Evernote switched the storage location to C:\Users\<user>\Evernote\Databases a little while ago.

It should be a fairly easy operation to check the old database on your system if the note is completely gone everywhere else.

1. File > Exit Evernote and switch off your network connection (that's most important!)
2. Go to your normal databases folder and rename it to anything else - databases.current will do
3. Move the Evernote/Evernote/Databases folder into the same location
4. restart Evernote.  If it can do so,  it will read the old database and show you what content exists.  If you can find your missing note,  export the content to ENEX and leave the file on your desktop.
5. File > Exit Evernote again.
6. Rename the old databases folder to databases.old and change the databases.current folder name back to databases.
7. restart Evernote.  Import the ENEX file and reconnect to the internet.
8. Resume normal operations...

If for any reason Evernote won't read your old database,  that will be a problem.  There are ways to get information out of the EXB file - it's a SQLlite database - but you may need some specialised help to find and extract your information.

You may want to contact Support on https://help.evernote.com/hc/requests/new if you're a subscriber,  or Twitter if not - https://twitter.com/evernotehelps to see whether there's anything they can do to help.