jasimon9

Thanks for your quick response to this old thread!

When I said "I also have a computer" I meant that "I also have a separate computer".  So two separate machines, and not the conflict you are correctly concerned about.

I was previously thinking that I would upgrade on the old computer to the latest version, but have decided not to at this point due to minor issues experienced with the new version. Not ready to dig into those issues further at this point. Rather I commented in this thread while trying to resolve the shortcut not working.

Using Evernote 10.57.6-mac-ddl-public (4112), "Paste into Evernote" via Ctrl-Cmd-V does not work. I also have a computer with Evernote 7.14, and it continues to work fine there.

I changed the global shortcut from Ctrl-Cmd-V to Ctrl-Cmd-P. Now it seems to work. But not always. It sometimes works, but sometimes it requires Evernote to be in the foreground.

This implies there is a conflict in shortcut key assignments. However I have always used Ctrl-Cmd-V, so there should be no other conflicting assignment. Further, I sometimes use a tool called Cheatsheet.app to show what key assignments are available. While using that with Evernote in the foreground, it shows no assignment for Ctrl-Cmd-V (before I changed it).

So I am thinking that the Evernote shortcut keys are messed up.
 

@gazumped - I have not actually gotten into the case where I needed to revert a note yet. Note History would be useful, but I would have to upgrade my plan apparently to have that available.

Good point though.

On 5/7/2023 at 1:42 PM, PinkElephant said:

You used to select all notes and export them, for a backup.

OK. First rule of a backup: Have one. Check. Second rule of a backup: It’s only a backup after you tried a restore. No check.

Why ? Because obviously, you never tried to restore. First it would have created a mess, because restoring means importing. You have a zillion of notes in that one huge single massive ENEX file, and you import it. Now you have that zillion of notes in your main account, together with all the original ones. And you will stall the upload,  cause you will likely surpass every upload allowance. Not good.

Even worse: All you notebooks are gone. You end up with ALL notes in ONE notebook. Eastern and Christmas on the same day ! How would you sort this out ?

So even if it was technically possible to export „all“ notes, it was by no means recommended.

What EN recommended, even back then was to export each notebook into one ENEX file. Give the file the notebook name. When you import an ENEX file, it will all go into one new notebook. Do it, rename it, and you have successfully restored from backup.

And this is what v10 is designed after: Export each notebook into a separate ENEX file. You can e port a full notebook, no matter how many notes are in there. The 100 limit applies only to single note selections. I have explained several times in the forum how to raise this limit. Search for it if you are interested.

If you search you will find as well a project from fellow user that does the export for you. And you will find the service backuppery, that does it professionally, for an additional subscription fee.

Thanks for your detailed response.

My concern for this backup is not if I "lost everything". Rather in that scenario I would rely on my multi-layer backup of Time Machine + SuperDuper. Such an approach is of course suggested by several in this thread and in the other relevant thread at 

.My concern is more if I messed up one note badly and wantd to revert to a previous version. In that case the following procedure would not be so bad:

1. Restore "All Notes" into one big temporary notebook.
2. Find the one note in question and restore it.
3. Blow away the temporary notebook.

Since I have never had to use such a procedure, the simplicity of the "All Notes export" is appealing. 

For the moment, I am going do the "by notebooks" export in my new Evernote, but continue to do the "All Notes" backup on a machine where I still have the Legacy EN that allows that.

What is not working for backup:

1. I used to just highlight all the Notes, then export them. But now it says you can only highlight 100 notes. So that will not work.
2. I have seen where you can export a Notebook. But I have about 20 notebooks, so that is a pain.
3. Many people say "just back up the EN data folder". Where is that? I see a lot of question about where it is, but no answer. I would be looking for the Mac location, but the answer should be both Windows and Mac locations.
4. Other people say that your main system backup handles it. That would handle certain use cases, but not the more common ones for me, where I just want an old note.

Most useful answer would be the location of the EN data files.

I got a new Mac. I had been using Ctrl-Cmd-E, the EN default for searching. On the new Mac, for some reason that keystroke just will not work. I did not assign it to some other program, and I have searched various places to see if it has been pre-empted somewhere. Cannot find it anywhere.

As a workaround, I have assigned Opt-Cmd-E as the EN search shortcut. That works some of the time, but it is flakey in that sometimes, that just does not work either.

Any ideas?