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For me, roughly $10/month is great value—
—compared to a few cups of coffee per month, or even the gas and wear-and-tear on my car driving to a coffee shop, or multiple online TV subscriptions, or local TV channels on cable TV, let alone the absurdly high price most of us pay for cellphone service in the US, or the two $20/month cellular data plans for our cars, or magazines (paper and online subscriptions), other software subscriptions...etc..
For the all the features in a paid subscription that I use, EN is tremendous value, and would be one of the last things I would give up if I were short of cash!
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The app launches, but attempting login I repeatedly get the error message: "Something went wrong at our end, sorry about that. Please try restarting Evernote".
Tried repeated restarts/shutdowns/logins with password or Apple login.
Tried disabling 2-step verification.
[Login on web or second mac works fine.]
The lack of response from level 2 Tech Support is alarming: is the department completely overloaded with requests? Surely login ability should be high on their triage process?
Any suggestions?
I hesitate to completely uninstall/reinstall since the last time I had resorted to the "nuclear option" it took 2 months for the local database to be rebuilt (mostly), so offline use on this machine is out of the question.
[imac, OS 13.5.1, EN 10.61.5, personal subscription]
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On 8/18/2023 at 10:51 AM, Dave-in-Decatur said:
the new installation (which is what v. 10 is) does take a little time to download the notes database,
Agreed.
A fresh installation of EN on a mac took over 2 months to build a local database of (38K) Notes, with an estimated 5% of Note contents still missing. The build appears to have stalled. This won't matter to many, but is important for people who want to use EN offline and search for Note contents.
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14 hours ago, Tcellguy said:
My install says "Evernote 10.57.10 is currently the newest version available." and the note status toggle is still active.
1. The latest app version is available for direct download at the website. Automatic notifications for "Update Available" appear to be rolled out at staggered rate (presumably to reduce demand?).
2. I discovered that the toggle for the Help/Troubleshooting menu (Opt key + select Help) works when viewing the All-Notes window, not a single Note window, explaining why this feature appeared to be intermittent for me :~)
My Setup:
2020 M1 macbook
OSX Ventura 10.13.1
EN 10.58.3 (downloaded from En website, not App Store)
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On 5/13/2023 at 3:01 PM, Tcellguy said:
In the troubleshooting dropdown you can select "toggle note status".
The troubleshooting dropdown is now absent in Mac EN 10.58.3
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On 5/6/2023 at 3:54 PM, PinkElephant said:
Might it be that because of the new data design of the notes, the whole offline (local) database needs to be downloaded again from the server ?
Hi PE, this approach was useful in the past years when I had a suspected corrupted database/configuration, but I can't get it to work now. I am stuck with a local database of a tiny fraction of my Notes, making offline EN impossible. How do I get a full rebuild/install to work now? Is this a personal glitch or a general "feature" of the latest version?
(I have a full install on a separate Mac, but am hesitant to experiment with a reinstall on this machine for fear of destroying this setup as well!)
THX.
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Mac OS OS 13.0.1
M1 silicon macbook
EN 10.58.3
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PLEASE will someone explain why they have a problem with EN 10 on an M1 mac! Pleas be specific, rather than just complaining.
I use an 2020 M1 macbook air and a 2017 Intel imac dozens of times every day for my workflow, using the same database. I cannot detect any difference in performance between the two, except that the Intel version loads more slowly. (My test: searching for a pair of words occurring seldom in the 35K+ notes; clicking on a series of 20 notes to see how fast the contents display).
Yes, EN 10+ is slower than EN 7+, but EN 7 is history.
My only small gripe is that the M1 can slow down and run low on RAM if many apps or web pages are open at the same time. The remedy is obvious.
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2 hours ago, eric99 said:
Thanks for the feedback, any idea about the reason for the crash (out of memory, corrupted note ...?)
I will investigate when I get some free time, and report any insights here.
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As a trial, using mac/EN 10.29.7 I exported a 100-note notebook into ENEX format. Import failed after 87 notes...
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11 hours ago, kuhneng said:
Brand new Macbook Pro M1 Pro, runs my heavyweight video and photo editing apps like a champ.
Try to open a note taking app I pay for... wait 20 seconds to start and get to the point where it can display a simple note. Search for / click on a note... another 4-5 seconds. All this while eating a gig of memory.
I'm tired of waiting for Evernote Corp to get its act together. Can someone show me to the exit? Any reliable ways to move 2500 notes over to OneNote or another platform?
If you have a new mac (or a fresh installation on an older mac) EN needs to create a new local database. In my experience this can take many hours (or even days for a large database). At least for me, the key was to leave the app open continuously until the database reached its full size (monitored with app cleaner). My new M1 (in early 2021) used massive amounts of CPU, disk access and power initially—at the same time, slowing functions like creating new notes. I don't know if this problem is true for others, or if it has been remedied in more recent app updates.
As a rule, I just leave the app open all the time, and new notes can be created in a second or less.
FWIW launching EN on my M1 macbook is much faster than on my 4-year old Intel imac.
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2 hours ago, deman said:
yes we need m1 support now its been a year ...
What performance are you seeing that was not present on an intel mac?
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On 1/15/2022 at 11:37 AM, Adam Miller said:
Trying Evernote now. If i cant get a way to open a new note faster, i'll have to go back to a different app. M1 support would probably do it.
I keep the app open continuously, and get a new note in about a second on both imac/intel and macbook/M1.
What problem are you having?
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@Ovine What exactly is your performance issue? For me, searching a large database on my M1, works fast; just like on my Intel mac.
I don't see any problems with launch; in fact it's much faster than on my Intel machine. I do recall that after a fresh installation of EN it can take a long time (hours) to build a local database (mine is ~20GB)—but this is equally true for a fresh installation on an Intel machine. For me, launch speed on M1 was fine once the database had been created.
On the other hand, the very heavy memory drain, even when the app is inactive, is a concern. I suspect that sluggish performance for some users might a consequence of running low on memory with many open apps.
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1 hour ago, LStar said:
I managed to restore my notes from the "deleted items" folder.
What exactly did you do?
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Perhaps someone could explain to me how they used "Context"?
It always seemed like a gimmick to me, not an essential tool.
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You can use "App Cleaner" (free or premium) to find all the files associated with a given app.
IIRC EN is installed in different places depending on whether it was downloaded from the Apple App store or directly from the EN site. I'm not clear what people want to do with the information, though.
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I have the same database installed on a 3-year old Intel imac and a brand new M1 macbook air. After several trials I cannot detect any difference in performance (except that the imac app initially loads more slowly). Personally, I'm much more interested in getting any remaining bugs ironed out and the user experience polished, rather than the distraction of a re-build—which will undoubtedly have its own new set of bugs.
Please be more specific about what you are doing and what is happening, otherwise threads like this are of minimal value.
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Mac EN 10.17.8 does work partially offline. Searching is, however, slow, and searching PDFs doesn't work (even though individual PDF notes are still visible). Not sure if this is a bug or a "feature" of EN 10. This severely limits my offline use.
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5 hours ago, LStar said:
My problem is that I've inadvertently deleted few notebooks in Evernote and I am not able to find them anymore,
EN 10.17.6 files are primarily located in
yourusername/Library/Application Support/Evernote/
plus a some Caches and Plists located elsewhere. For me, a total of about half a million files—not a single database. Personally, I would not mess with this file structure without input from EN Support!
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On 6/10/2021 at 11:54 PM, Fred V. said:
I have tested it and it's the same for me, still slow and still unusable...
I'm using EN on an M1 Macbook Air many times each day, without a noticeable problem with speed, and similar to EN on a 2017 iMac.
Perhaps you could describe your workflow in more detail? How long has your app+database been installed?
Have you approached tech support? It's important to separate out specific issues with one's installation/workflow versus inherent limitations in the software/platform.
[EN 10.15.6, OSX 11.2.3
35,000 notes—largely PDF files; 17 GB EN database ]
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11 hours ago, David Bent said:
still could not print out that specific mail to Evernote.
You can create a new print workflow by editing the PDF print menu.
Briefly:
cmd-P
click on PDF
select "edit menu"
navigate the finder to the application folder
select Evernote
You can rename this Print Workflow, if you wish, e.g. "Print PDF to Evernote"
That's it. Now you have a new menu option for PDF to Evernote.
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If you don't want a PDF, don't forget that you save an email or webpage to a new note by:
cmd-A. (to select all)
ctrl-cmd-V (to create a new note)
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Copyclip is a free app that can store tens of your previous clips and allow you to paste the desired clips into
4 hours ago, jamesreadhead said:With the clipper selection though, we used to be able to clip, clip, clip in succession and build up a collection of clips in a single clipper note and then save
You might consider the free CopyClip app which allows you to access dozens of your previous clips.
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On 3/29/2021 at 5:18 PM, M. Black said:
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but do mean pasting this into another program, such as Word (adding a cmd-V in there) and then saving as a PDF via the print function? Or is there another way to do this I'm not getting?
@M. Black I can think of three approaches.
1. cmd-A, then cmd-P, then drop down the PDF section of the print menu and save as a PDF to the desktop. Create a new Note and import the PDF. (Doable, but cumbersome).
2. Instead, use the "open in preview" option the print menu (now is in pdf format). Us the share button within Preview to mail the file to your personal EN email address. I like this because it allows you to rename the note and add notebook and tags:
Send to: notetitle@notebookname#tagname
3. Use the "Save PDF to Evernote" button within the Print menu -- but this appears to be broken, and should be reported to tech support...
(BTW It's not clear to me why one would want to save as PDF, but we all have different workflows.)
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Updated to EN 10.10.5 and the three screen capture buttons have disappeared again.
(mac OS 11.2.3)
"Save PDF to Evernote" from print dialog has stopped working
in Evernote for Mac Issues (Versions 10.0 and above)
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Still working for me, except that it's now a bit more tricky to change the name of the function.
Alternatively, you can always use the Mail function to send to EN:
Create an email address in your Contacts with a catchy name (e.g. called "Evernote Mail") with the address of your unique EN forwarding address. Send the mail here and it will create a new EN note in PDF format.