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Just wanted to follow up on this: I got premium for a month and that solved the issue. When I went back on the basic free plan, the issue was gone. Thanks for all the help!

You know, I just noticed that the webclips I save sync down to the app, but changes on the app won't sync up to the servers. That'll do for now, since most of my syncing is server>app

That's a pretty good idea, subscribing for a month---besides support access, could work as a reset. Temp store until things shake out also a good idea. Thanks!

Hi,

I went over the limit last month and got the over limit message (on basic) and with the resultant inability to sync. Now that my cycle is in a new month, I'm still getting the message and still can't sync. Web reports status correctly. I've tried signing out and back in on desktop, but no luck. Any ideas?

Oh, I'm using evernote legacy, which probably isn't helping

I also want to know the answer to OP's question. The linked article is woefully inadequate

Same issue

I ran a few more tests, and tend to agree that it's not affecting quota. Was Premium about 5 years and now trying to see if living on Basic works. All these interesting questions are now popping up.

I'm in the process of adding/updating tags to 1000s of notes. I'm doing a bulk hack, using the intitle query format and tagging accordingly. Syncing these updates takes quite a bit of time, and had me wondering if it impacts the monthly upload quota. The quota meter isn't too granular. I checked my usage after I did a big set of tag updates (I didn't check it before), and it did seem that I used more than the total of a handful of new notes' sizes, but it's hard to tell for sure. After another bulk update and syncing of tags the quota count didn't seem to have changed, but I don't know how long it takes for the system to update the usage meter. Thoughts?

2 minutes ago, Vidalia said:

It is not EN's best interest to allow storing database in a cloud drive. Then would be possible to bypass EN free tier limitation to sync into multiple devices potentially having a local notes system bypassing EN server completely.

EN wants your data to be in their server for a reason.

I don't see how setting the local DB files to live in a local OneDrive or Dropbox folder would bypass EN's servers: for example, if, on my Win 10 machine, I set the EN database folder be  in my local OneDrive folder, my MacBook is not going to sync from that: it's going to open from its own local DB storage and sync new notes from EN's servers. Anyway, it's allowable now: All I have to go to settings and tell EN to put the DB storage folder in my OneDrive folder. The real concern in doing this is file corruption. 

19 minutes ago, CalS said:

If you are concerned with local notebooks consider exporting them to ENEX files on some periodic basis and then zip-encrypting the files to OneDrive.  Full disclosure I do this on a weekly basis. 

Yeah, I do the same. I guess I'm just being overly cautious. I suppose there's no direct need to backup up the core db files, which I do by default anyway by cloning my data drives once a week too.

All good points. Bottom line, I think I'll leave this idea alone for now!

Back in 2016, someone asked a similar question about Dropbox, and it was heavily discouraged:

5 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

EN when installed on a desktop as a client app places the data base always on your system drive. It doesn’t even support to install on an external drive, and not on a cloud service for sure. You can’t even pick the place where it will install, nor is there a way to change this later.

Hi, thanks for the detailed response, but unless we're talking about different things, are you sure the above is correct? I can go into Evernote settings right now and change the location of the DB. In fact, I already have it set up to be in my secondary drive.

As for performance problems, it's not like you're actually creating a link within EN to a cloud server, you're just putting the files in a local folder that the cloud, like OneNote, syncs to. You're not reliant on the OneDrive's responsiveness. The only reason I can think of Evernote not liking people to move their EN database to a sync folder is that there might be a chance of corruption if, say, you shut your laptop before the cloud service (like OneDrive or Dropbox) has a chance to finish syncing back to the cloud. If I open the laptop again, I suppose there's a chance that a corrupt version of the DB files could sync back top the local drive.

I've been thinking about changing my database location to my OneDrive folder. Then I found this on an Evernote help page on backing up Evernote:

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Evernote does not support placing the database file in a location that syncs with 3rd party services. This includes, but is not limited to: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box.

Anyone know why this might be a problem?

13 minutes ago, DTLow said:

I posted some Applescript basics at https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/112316-scripting-on-a-mac-applescript/

In your case, you want to select the notes and have the script process each one
The script code is   tell application "Evernote" to set theNotes to get selection
                                   repeat with theNote in theNotes
                                                                       < insert code here
                                    end repeat

For the "simplify formatting" code, I searched the internet and found this https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/RemoveMarkupfromHTML.html

Feel free to ask if you have any questions implementing this

Wow -- thank you so much! I'll dig into this.

26 minutes ago, CalS said:

No easy way that of which I am aware.  If it is hundreds of notes you can create a hotkey using a text expander to automate some working through the list of notes.  But it is still going to be a hotkey press per note at best.

Hahaha -- I got thousands. They're recipes from webclips. I should have gone for "Simplified article" when I captured them, but live and learn . . .

23 minutes ago, DTLow said:

Scripting on a Mac (Applescript)

I've never used Applescript--is it like creating macros? Hard to learn?

I have a lot of notes that need to have simplified formatting applied to them. Any ideas on how?

TIA

Add my voice to wanting nesting notebooks. I'm already drowning in tags. And I need to see the visual org of a particular project. 

On 5/9/2016 at 11:48 AM, Austin G said:

Thanks for the update. Try these steps to help fix this. 

1. Open Evernote for Windows
2. Once open click on **Tools** in the menu bar of the application.
3. From there hold down the CTRL key and hover over to **Help** and you will see the Help menu has been expanded.
4. Choose **Fix All Notes** and then go back and choose **Optimize Database**.
5. Restart your computer and then go back into Evernote 

Let us know if that helps. 

I had the same problem, and this solved it. Thanks!