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zigzagwanderer

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    On 5/1/2020 at 3:44 AM, dpnote said:

    I wrote this simple Windows batch file script that you can use to backup all your Evernote notebooks to Google Drive. You can also use Windows' Task Scheduler to schedule the backup as needed. The CMD file is attached.

    Is this tool meant to retain the timestamps of the notes once they're converted to Docs? That's my problem with exporting to HTML and manually uploading to GDrive; the metadata is not retained in the export, so the creation and modified dates are all uniform.

  2. Is the idea to get the embedded metadata inside the HTML files to reflect on the file itself? I've been Googling but not found anything that'll do the trick. I look forward to your solution, though, if you ever get round to it.

    The Evernote Apocalypse has come for me, unfortunately. I still intend on using it for a few notes here and there, but by and large its incessant problems and lack of improvements have kicked me out. Making the migration to Google Drive, however, is gonna be a sad affair if all my 1000s of notes were 'created yesterday'. 

  3. 2 minutes ago, DTLow said:

    >>And when I exported the note I had had selected into .html, Finder still reads it as a file that was birthed a few minutes ago

    I have no solution to that issue   
    My scripting is used to append metadata to the note contents

    Ah I see. My bad, I must've explained it poorly. No worries, then, but thank you for the script—I learned something anyhow.

    Hopefully someone out there might know!

  4. Thanks. So I read online that handlers need to be placed at the end of the script. I did that, and off it went! Success.

    It seemed to only fiddle with one note though, not all of them. And when I exported the note I had had selected into .html, Finder still reads it as a file that was birthed a few minutes ago. The example I have here is a file that was last updated in Evernote in 2015, but Finder sees it as Today.

    What have I done wrong now?

    Screenshot 2020-06-28 at 19.50.11.png

  5. Excellent! This feels like a riddle. But I encountered another error. I run it and get this 

    Syntax Error: Expected “end” but found “end tell”.

    So then I did a bit of Googling—I have to again note that I am an utter novice at this—but I found on some website that if I simply put "end" above "end tell" that Script Editor would accept it. It did, but then the issue became

    «script» doesn’t understand the “FormatDate” message.

    So I'm back where I started. Any guidance, @DTLow? Again, thank you so much, this is a huge help.

  6. Hi all,

    So what I'm trying to do is export my Evernote notes and put them into Google Drive folders as Docs files. It seems pretty simple to do because Evernote can export .html files of every note and then Google Drive can convert the .html file into a docs file when I upload. Easy! But the problem is is that the metadata is all wrong. So even though in Evernote I've got files dating back to 2012, they all appear on Google Drive as though they were created and modified on 28 June 2020. Obviously, finding things becomes a mess.

    So unless someone has a better workflow, is there any way that I can retain each file's metadata when I export to .html?

  7. Hi,

    So I'm sure we'll all agree that the native options to highlight PDFs in Evernote are laughable, with the semi-transparent squiggley line overlays. I've tried various external apps that do the job much better (Xodo being my favourite) but I can't figure out how to get Evernote to accept the changes and update the existing file in the note. 

    Is there some new workaround to this that I haven't spotted in the forums?

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