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EN 6.24.2.8919, Windows 10

Through a possible flurry of keystrokes, I sent my 7,000 notes to the trash. EN froze, and when I launched it again, it looked like all my notes were syncing, and my notebooks were empty. I right-clicked on Trash and selected Restore Deleted Notes. However, before it can do that, I think it need to finish syncing.  I have completed exited EN. What is the best way to restore my Evernote? I backed up the EXB as soon as I saw something was weird. I do have a laptop that has not synced today, and has a nearly complete EN database. What do ya'll advise?

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Everything is in the trash. I did choose Restore, but it looks like it is syncing the emptiness first. On EN online, I now have around 1500 notes in All Notes, and over 5500 in trash. It is trying to sync until it is empty. I am fine with that, as long as restore can restore to notebooks.

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Thanks CalS for the advice. I waited for sync to complete. Kinda freaky seeing that I only had 21 notes! That was interesting, by the way; I think the 21 that didn't go in the trash were all shared with me via work chat. Restoring the trash was successful, and placed the notes in the proper notebooks. Have a great day!

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After all of my notes were sent to the trash yesterday, I was happy to see them restored - thanks CalS! Everything looked good until today, when my wife noticed that five of her notebooks that she shared with me were empty. The notes are not in my trash and not in her trash. In my EN, the notebooks and the notes are missing. On her account, the notebooks are there but the notes are missing. She has a computer that was off; I booted it and quickly switched to airplane mode. I copied her Database folder. Because this computer has not yet synced, the five missing notebooks and all their notes are there. Once that computer connects to the internet, I assume the notes will disappear. What is the better way to restore these notes:

1) Create new notebooks and copy the notes to the newly created notebooks
2) Somehow restore the missing notes from the Database folder/EXB
3) Something else

Thank you in advance for your advice and assistance.

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I would export the notes to a .enex file as backup
There  is a pending delete that may trigger with the first sync; which can be recovered from the Trash

I would have expected to find the deleted notes in the notebook owners Trash

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On 12/15/2020 at 9:43 PM, cleverusername said:

After all of my notes were sent to the trash yesterday, I was happy to see them restored - thanks CalS! Everything looked good until today, when my wife noticed that five of her notebooks that she shared with me were empty. The notes are not in my trash and not in her trash. In my EN, the notebooks and the notes are missing. On her account, the notebooks are there but the notes are missing. She has a computer that was off; I booted it and quickly switched to airplane mode. I copied her Database folder. Because this computer has not yet synced, the five missing notebooks and all their notes are there. Once that computer connects to the internet, I assume the notes will disappear. What is the better way to restore these notes:

1) Create new notebooks and copy the notes to the newly created notebooks
2) Somehow restore the missing notes from the Database folder/EXB
3) Something else

Thank you in advance for your advice and assistance.

As @DTLowsaid, export to ENEX so as to be able to restore should something be amiss.  Not clear to me though how a misstep on your EN could delete notes on her EN????

 

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Thank you DTLow; I have exported the notes to ENEX, and I will work on the restore tonight. Regarding how my misstep could delete notes on her EN, I have no idea. Five of her notebooks had the contents deleted; the notebooks were still there, but they were empty. The notes were not in either of our trash. We have other shared notebooks, although most were probably owned/created by me. Also, I have shared notebooks with several other users, but I thought these were unaffected. I just noticed two notebooks my boss shares with me are empty! . . . I checked his trash and he has several hundred notes, but not all of them are from what he shares with me, so I don't want to restore them. He may have a computer that has not synced since my mass deletion, and I could export ENEX from that. If not, is there any other way to fix this?

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2 hours ago, cleverusername said:

Thank you DTLow; I have exported the notes to ENEX, and I will work on the restore tonight. Regarding how my misstep could delete notes on her EN, I have no idea. Five of her notebooks had the contents deleted; the notebooks were still there, but they were empty. The notes were not in either of our trash. We have other shared notebooks, although most were probably owned/created by me. Also, I have shared notebooks with several other users, but I thought these were unaffected. I just noticed two notebooks my boss shares with me are empty! . . . I checked his trash and he has several hundred notes, but not all of them are from what he shares with me, so I don't want to restore them. He may have a computer that has not synced since my mass deletion, and I could export ENEX from that. If not, is there any other way to fix this?

I read the earlier post as notebooks she shared with you.  If in reality it was you sharing with her then the empty notebooks in her EN make sense as the notes had been deleted from your EN.  Not sure, but restoring the notes to your EN should put them back in her EN.

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43 minutes ago, CalS said:

I read the earlier post as notebooks she shared with you.  If in reality it was you sharing with her then the empty notebooks in her EN make sense as the notes had been deleted from your EN.  Not sure, but restoring the notes to your EN should put them back in her EN.

These were her notebooks, shared with me. The contents of my notebooks, shared with her, came back when I restored the trash.

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1 hour ago, cleverusername said:

These were her notebooks, shared with me. The contents of my notebooks, shared with her, came back when I restored the trash.

Wow.  Did you two have a cosmic let's delete some notebooks moment?  ;)

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