Ken Nielsen

Thank You DTLow, tardis, JMichaelTX, as this puts a real foundation of essential knowledge under the subject of making backups in Evernote. This knowledge increases the value of Evernote by making it possible to recover valuable notes in the event of loss. I would only add the mention of the history which is available in Premium, but if you don't need Premium features, as I do not, making systematic regular backups using BOTH methods that Evernote offers is an essential and complete prevention against the loss of often irreplaceable notes.

I add one other level, for reference notes, where I want absolute assurance of backup, I export a PDF, so I have the text in a form where I can format the result in a page layout program for hard-copy reference. This is important where I only need Evernote to 'gather' the information and where I need a hard copy print out formatted in the way I want for convenient reference (Note contents formatted in alphabetical order and in columns on a single page.) But this is for my specialized use.

Here is my question then DTLow, to fix my problem with deleted notes that have not yet synced to my iPhone, where I can see the note restored from history in my Evernote on the computer.... How can I get the backup onto my iPhone, or is that not possible? I just tried emailing the note to myself and copy and paste does not work across apps so from email to Evernote does not do this.

I'm guessing all of this good stuff is only accomplished on the computer version of Evernote... I can see on checking it now, that the Evernote version on my devices have no ability to import notes... Just checking with you on this as I am trying to think of all possible options to restore notes on my devices where sync is not doing the job.

1 hour ago, DTLow said:

The best way is to try it out and see how it works for you

Thank You DTLow, I appreciate how you have made the critical subject of backing up notes in Evernote much more clear. I'll use both and see how each works. 

My problem is that Evernote always seems to have one note at least selected, so choosing 'all notes' there is still one note selected in 'all notes.' SELECTING ALL seems to get around that okay. I imagine then that saving notes separately is the surest way to keep information and compatibility in tact?

I can Export, which is a important function for making a backup of notes, but only one chosen set of notes at a time makes the job tedious and time-consuming if I want to back up all notes.

Is there a way to Export all notes at once to make a complete backup of all of my notes?

TIA,

Ken