blessedtoes

thanks!

I'm not sure i understand the terminology. If you're asking if I've tried this on an older version (7.14) of Evernote, no I haven't. I am on 10.15.6. Honestly it never would have occurred to me to try an older version, I wouldn't have known which version to try (I certainly never would have thought to go back that far), and wouldn't have assumed I could have installed two 'competing' instances on my machine. On rare occasions I've done this, like with QuickTime, but I thought in general this wasn't possible. Is this something you recommend? If I can find an installer and if it works on BS I'm happy to try it. Thanks again for your thoughts and time.

Thanks for this. I was skeptical this might work since every other adaptation to Big Sur I've run across involved major changes in directories, but I tried anyway. For me, there is no change to the choice sets when clicking on Help whether I use Option or not (tried Command and Control as well), and in neither case does the choice "Open Database Folder" appear. Unless I'm an utter moron (which may well be the case) this is not available in Big Sur.

I have read all of this thoroughly, and a few other threads, though this seems the most promising. I'm not adept with tech so a thorough read doesn't mean I didn't miss the answer - so potential apologies in advance. In the course of trying to upgrade to Big Sur my machine crashed and I had to do a clean install. Luckily I had Time Machined immediately before my attempt. When I completed re-setting my system, I logged on to Evernote, which I've been using since around 2010 I believe, and discovered that a large number of "recent" notes were "missing." Most were not, so I assume this means that at some point EN stopped syncing files and storing them on their servers, or I opted out of a paid membership or something, I have no recollection. I would very much like these recent notes, so attempted to follow the "recent" directions above: however in my Time Machine backup the folders listed above don't exist. I checked thoroughly under Library/Application Support and Library/Containers and Library/GroupContainers, in both the main system library AND user/<username>/Library. I appreciate I may be missing something simple here, but if anyone can help me find the data for the notes I had on my machine under Catalina last week, backed up on my TM drive, I would be deeply grateful. Thanks.