JMichaelTX

How do you guys really know this? Do you know it, or, are you just repeating what you have heard elsewhere, or just relying you your own internal logic? I'm not saying that Evernote has to be 100% bug-free, but that should at least be the goal. I know of at least one, very complex piece of software that the developers assert is bug-free: They Write the Right Stuff | Fast Company | Business + Innovation Clearly, Evernote does not have the resources of NASA, nor the motivation and commitment. If you accept bugs as being commonplace, then they will be.

Some will never be fixed. That is the nature of software design. I know that is the conventional wisdom, but I don't accept it. In fact, I have observed since software updates via the Internet have become commonplace, the number of bugs in software has risen considerably. I believe this has resulted in programmers and QA teams becoming more relaxed in their due diligence. There doesn't seem to be any real penalty in producing and releasing software with bugs, even obvious bugs. There doesn't seem to be much pride of authorship in producing solid code with no bugs. Everyone seems to take the attitude of "don't worry about bugs, we can always fix them in the next update (next week)". If you the programmer, you the QA tester, you the product/project manager, believe bugs are the norm, then they will be. I would love for someone to prove me wrong.

Once again, @DTLow, you need to check you facts. That blog was posted nearly 6 years ago: Since then, many, many things have changed. Your post is off-topic, and irrelevant to the topic at hand: Protection against ransomware Your use of excessively large font for the URL suggests that you are trying to stir up trouble where there is none. Again, you should do your homework, and get your facts straight before posting: Your post has nothing to do with Protection against ransomware The article is ancient history, nearly 6 years old Since that time, Evernote has done a complete redesign of their Service and data center. (If you want more information about that, see the Evernote Ops Blog) Even if that blog had relevance, the loss affected ONLY "a small group of users (less than one-fifth of 1 percent)" While I have seen a few users from time to time report a loss of data, I have never seen anyone claim it was due to hardware failure of the EN Cloud. Personally, I have never lost any of my Evernote data due to fault of Evernote, for any reason. If anyone is interested in a more complete picture, then you may want to read Evernote's response to the incident: Evernote"s July 1st Server Problem -- Posted by Phil Libin on 09 Aug 2010

For Mac and iPad Users: If you want a PIM (Personal Information Manager) now that supports AES-256 encryption, checkout Yojimbo: I am evaluating Yojimbo now.

I find the EN Clipper also almost always picks the right primary tag to use. In my case, those are pseudo Notebook tags, which, for most purposes, work just like an actual Notebook. Now that EN Win has tag inheritance (as an option), clicking on a top-level tag, shows all Notes that have it, or any of its child tags, as a tag.

Well, if there is one thing it seems that many of us can agree upon, it is that Evernote should offer zero-key encryption on a per Notebook basis. Having said that, one can become so obsessive about security, that they almost never do anything, go anywhere, share anything. I suppose that is one approach, but not one for me. While the use of, and benefit of, Evernote would be much improved by the encryption I mentioned above, it is still very useful now if one simply takes reasonable precautions: Before putting into Evernote, Use AES-256 encryption in PDF or zip (some zip tools now offer 256-AES) files for all information that is sensitive Don't put anything unencrypted into Evernote that could be harmful to you, or you would be embarrassed by, if obtained by a malicious third party. For me, the pretty much covers everything I would want to put into Evernote.

@PeeJayTee: It has be almost 9 months since you wrote this. What is your assessment on your progress in achieving the objectives you stated above? It seems there are still many complains about the most basic capability, features of the Evernote Editor, both in EN Win and EN Mac. You may want to carefully review this thread: Please note these issues, in particular: Editor not responding properly to either the Delete key or Backspace key Format is not retained with copy/paste with other apps, like MS Word. Users have to revert to using just basic plain text the editor is still plagued with some of the same problems (bullet lists, for example) it has had since way back in 2008 Improper handling of lists (bullet and numbered), especially when a copy/cut/paste or drag/drop is done within a list.

As far as I can tell, Evernote is in good financial health, and is on a road to return to its core mission and feature set. I see no evidence of an "impending doom". See this recent interview by The Verge: Evernote's new CEO on the company's critics: 'I love to be underestimated' Anything is possible. But IMO, the scenarios you state are highly unlikely to occur: From the beginning, Evernote has stated that our data is "our data", and we are free to take it elsewhere. To that end they have provided several export options. So I would be totally shocked if Evernote pushed out an update that prevented us from using the desktop apps. It is very rare for any company of size, with 100's of millions of users, to go out of business overnight. In fact, I don't know of any. It is much more likely that Evernote themselves would give us ample notice to export our data I would expect some other large IT company, like Google and Yahoo, to buy out a failing Evernote, pennies on the dollar, and continue services, at least for the short term. In spite of the pundits, I see no current reason to expect Evernote to fail, to go out of business. On the contrary, I expect Evernote to either go public, or be bought by one of the big boys. I did not say absolutely never. I said "most likely never happen in my lifetime". I totally agree that each person should make their own backups. I never (oops, there's that word ) suggested that backups should not be done. I did say in another thread:

Just to be clear, the "Guru" label means absolutely nothing. It is NOT something any of us picked. It is a stupid label automatically assigned by this forum's software to ANY user who has about 300 posts or more.

@Matt W., that's fine, but this is an ANDROID thread. We need to vote on thumbnail override for ALL Evernote apps. Where is that???

As good ole Ben Franklin said: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" We have addressed extensively how to recover from a Ransomware event, but no discussion about how to prevent it. IMO, almost all virus/trojan/malware events are preventable by, or allowed by, the individual user. (All of the below is my opinion, but based on decades of IT experience. Do your own research to confirm or refute) Most infections occur, just like in real life, because the user did something dangerous, went to risky web sites, downloaded illegal or questionable docs/apps, opened risky emails/attachments, etc. The rule many of us learned long ago is to not open email attachments, even from people you know, if you were not expecting the attachment. Malware can make an email look it is coming from someone you know and trust, like your boss, family, or colleague. Don't click on links in email to open web sites. Instead, go to your browser and open manually, or from browser bookmarks. You can try to make it easier, and see the underlying URL, by right-clicking on the link in the mail, and select "Copy link". Then paste that link into your browser address bar, but do NOT press RETURN. Verity the link is proper before you press RETURN or click on the browser GO button. If you are using Windows, then get a high-quality anti-virus, anti-malware product and keep it updated. This is one area where going with the cheapest may not be the best solution. If you are using a Mac, then make sure you have enabled the security that Apple provides you with. See my post above. Yes, doing the above makes life a little more inconvenient. But not nearly as inconvenient if you become infected.

Ransomware on the Mac Sorry for so many posts in a row, but now that I've posted an article about the Ransomware danger to Macs, it seems appropriate to post how Mac users can protect against it. The simple answer is: Protection is already built in to the Mac OSX, but you need to make sure it is enabled. See XProtect Explained: How Your Mac"s Built-in Anti-malware Software Works Having said that, I strongly suggest that you do your own research, perhaps starting with a Google of "mac ransomware protection"

Since the main issue of this topic is Ransomware, I thought I'd share this recent article: The Future of Cybercrime: Mac Ransomware

The "Guru" label means nothing. It is NOT a label that any of us have picked. It is automatically assigned by the forum software to any member who has more than about 300 posts. Furthermore, we are all just Evernote users, just like you. We share our experience in hopes it will help others. But I hope everyone understands that it would be very risky to accept any post, including yours, in a public users forum as being authoritative. Before acting on any information here, users would be well advised to verify/validate the information from other sources, which are authoritative. Are you a Mac user? You assertions about Time Machine are NOT consistent with the facts. TM Backups can go back for years, maintaining a backup on a weekly basis. TM does not use the traditional incremental and differential backup strategies that most backup systems use. From Complete guide to Time Machine For more details on TM, read the above article, as well as How Time Machine Works its Magic . Finally, I would suggest that those interested in TM, also do a Google on "Mac Time Machine", where you will find numerous articles by Apple and other authoritative sources. For purposes of backing up your Evernote Notes, I don't see why the EXB file and export of all Notes to ENEX would not be equivalent. However, the EXB file does include your entire Evernote account structure, including Notebooks, Stacks, Tags, Tag hierarchies, etc. So, in that sense, EXB file contains more info than is in the ENEX files. However, when it comes time to restore, or I should say recover, your Notes from a backup, you will still need to first restore the EXB file, and then, using the EN Win app, export to ENEX the Notes of interest. But you will NOT be able to force the EN Cloud to accept your restored EXB as your new, latest version. As soon as you sync, the EN Cloud will overwrite your settings (from an OLD EXB). Finally, @RadicalDad, if you have issues or concerns with a post by anyone, then show us all the courtesy of quoting and addressing the specific post and individual, rather than lumping all of us together who happen to have a bogus label of "guru".

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Backing up your digital data is like buying insurance: coverage vs cost vs risk of loss IMO, there is no need, except possibly piece of mind, for buying more insurance than you need. For me, I am quite comfortable with using only Time Machine to backup my EN Mac data (and everything else on my Mac) once an hour to a 3TB NAS running RAID 1 with high-end hard drives. I have no need to also backup to ENEX or HTML. But I do have two Macs, one highly portable, with Evernote and all of my critical data, as well as all of the critical data being in DropBox.

If you use Mac Time Machine, it is actually very similar to the EN Win EXB Restore process: Quit EN Mac Rename the top-level Evernote data folder Restore same folder from TM backup Open EN Mac, and export to ENEX the Notes of interest. Quit EN Mac Delete, rename, or move the top-level Evernote folder restored from backup in Step #3 Rename the original top-level Evernote folder from Step #2 BACK to its original name

Hey, JB, I thought we covered that in another topic: Basically, you just restore the OLD .EXB file from backup, run Evernote, export to ENEX the notes of interest.

IMO, this is a false flag. Even IF Evernote (the company) were to disappear without notice tomorrow, my EN Mac app, and my EN Win app, would STILL continue to work, even without an Internet connection. So I could at that point, export ALL of my notes to HTML. Or, even better, since I use a Mac, I could use AppleScript to copy my EN Notes to another app, like DevonThink, Apple Notes, or any other Mac app that supports AppleScript. So I never concern myself with an "Evernote Apocalypse", which will most likely never happen in my lifetime. If it does, I'm ready.

Well, the purpose here is for backup, so I don't see any need to routinely export all of my notes to HTML, just so I can read them. If the occasion ever comes up where I need to use a Note(s) outside of Evernote, then I can easily export to HTML at that time.

John, sorry if I'm being dense here, but please clarify: Does the current version support incremental export (only new/modified notes), OR, are you referring to what is possible in a future version?

John, looks like you've been doing some good work! Is it possible to backup/export ONLY those notes which have changed or been added since the last backup/export?

Congratulations, your first backup! May you never need it.

If your script works for you, then that is great. However, I would caution others to be aware of some issues: Use of the "with timeout" may mean that the export does NOT complete. It appears that you are running BOTH an incremental and total export on Saturday. Not necessary and consumes extra storage space. You are exporting to BOTH HTML and ENEX -- not necessary IMO. Your statement for finding ALL notes is flawed: set theNotes to find notes ("updated:19900101") Neither your daily nor full exports do anything to identify the Notebook of the Notes. Your export location is hard coded, and will have to be changed by each user The name of your export file for full backup is fixed, and so it will be overwritten each week. You don't trap for any errors, so if there is one the user may not know what caused it.

First of all, your reference is ONLY for Mac AppleScript. Second, that is a terrible AppleScript. I would never use it: It exports ALL notes without regard to Notebook It uses a very poor "find notes" statement, which can fail. set matches to find notes "created:19900101" It exports ALL notes without regard to date (last modified) I would share my script, but I do not have an AppleScript for daily export of ENEX, because I don't need it. As I stated above, I just use Mac Time Machine.