Recovering sticky notes

This is an old post, but it was wrote originally in spanish, perhaps could be as helpful in english as the spanish version was, for those who still need help with this problem. The old post said that:

"Something has happen at 8 in the morning, all my sticky notes were gone, all my important information, so i had to figured it out how to solved it.

I didn't found good help, that's why i wrote these post, to help each others with the same problem.

FIRST
Don't breathe, these is very important, if you write something in sticky note could overrite the old file notes, even the stickys are already empty, DONT WRITE A SINGLE DOT. 
There is two methods one soft and the others is harder, if you didn't overrite the file typing in sticky notes, you still can use the soft one method, else you'll have to follow the harder method that is also explain in this post, just lower.

SECOND
You need to go to the Sticky Notes folder  C:\Users\(Your User)\AppData\Roamming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes


THIRD
You'll find a file named StickyNotes.snt, you'll open this file ONLY with notepad or  the sticky notes application located in %windir%\system32\StikyNot.exe and that's all. You can read all your notes.
Here ends the soft method of recovering your stickys.

If you continue reading this, is because you wrote something in sticky notes when they appear cleared, even i said not to write nothing. Hehehehe don't worry because i did the same thing, but there is a solution.

If the file you've opened has 4Kb of size, i'm sorry to say you, you're wasting your time.

So the next, make a backup of that file

FOURTH

The harder method continue here, but it will only work if you had enabled the option of System Recovery on the C:\ disk to here, also your system should have done restauration points, otherwise your notes are 99% lost.

There is important to repeat, make a backup of that file, because if you make a mistake in this part of the recover the file could be deleted, corrupted, or just reseted, so with the backup we can do this again.

Well the image is in spanish the option marked "Restaurar versiones ant
In the folder C:\Users\(su usuario)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes select the field  StickyNotes.snt, you should do right clic and pick the option "Restaurar Versiones anteriores" sorry the image is in english, translating it means "Recovery old versions", and that will show you a historical of the backups or restauration points that has generated before. If you have this backups your information is 85 recovered% why only 85 because it depends when that backup was created.

IMPORTANT, i said before if the Option Recovery was disabled, in this historical you'll find nothing, that's why this was important.

If you see the historical, choose one, and pick on Ok, wait until that finished, and close everything, finally re-open the application Sticky Notes and there you'll have your notes recovered. I couldn't recover everthing because the date of the backup was too old, but the most of it.

I hope these information could be as useful as it was for me."

P.S. MIGRATION STICKY NOTES

In the original version in spanish, the people feedback me and said that is possible to migrate these stickynote.snt files to another version of Windows, so, if you have planned this migration, just copy that file, make a backup and lets go. 

Best regards.

Recuperando informacion de "Notas Rapidas" de Windows 7

Hoy  me ocurrio algo que me dejó frío, todas mis notas del "Notas Rapidas" Sticky Notes habian desaparecido, eran importantes......... tuve que buscar la forma de recuperarlas ...
Encontre muy poca informacion, por eso publico esta ayuda para sirva de ayuda a alguien mas.

PRIMERO
No muevan nada de sus sticky notes, no escriban nada para evitar sobreescribir el archivo donde se guardaron sus notas, si se sobreescribe tendran que usar otro metodo y ya no el sencillo que estoy explicando en estos pasos. El metodo drastico tambien lo explico mas abajo.

SEGUNDO
Deben dirigirse a la carpeta de la aplicacion Sticky Notes C:\Users\(su usuario)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes

TERCERO
Encontraran un archivo llamado StickyNotes.snt, pueden abrir este archivo con el bloc de notas o con la aplicacion de Notas Rapidas %windir%\system32\StikyNot.exe , PERO OJO, si es que este archivo tiene menos de 4 Kb, estan perdiendo el tiempo.

Saquenle un backup a este archivo antes de hacerle cualquier cambio.

CUARTO
Si es que omitieron el primer paso (como yo lo hice) hay salvacion, pero solo si tienen habilitado la opcion de Restaurar Sistema y tienen puntos de restauracion previos registrados, de lo contrario cierren esta pagina y hagan memoria de lo que tenian en sus notas ...........

En la carpeta C:\Users\(su usuario)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes escojan el archivo StickyNotes.snt, deben darle clic derecho y escoger la opcion Restaurar Versiones anteriores, les mostrará un historial de los backups o puntos de restauracion que se hayan generado de ese archivo, esto se crea gracias a los Puntos de Restauracion.

IMPORTANTE, por eso indique antes, si esa opcion esta deshabilitada, entonces aqui les mostrara vacío.

Si logran ver la lista de puntos, escojan una, la opcion recuperar, y luego Aceptar, se salen de todo y al final vuelven a Abrir el Sticky Notes o notas rapidas y listo recuperaron la ultima opcion guarada de sus notas. Yo no pude recuperar todo, pero si gran parte, al menos me libro de hacer memoria de todo cuanto tenia.

Espero les haya servido tanto como a mi me sirvió.

P.D.  MIGRACION DE NOTAS RAPIDAS ENTRE PC's

Gracias al aporte de muchos lectores que pudieron retroalimentar este post, y a pruebas hechas por mi persona, se evidencio que es posible recuperar las notas rapidas en diferentes versiones de Windows a través de este mismo procedimiento. De igual forma se puede migrar el archivo StickyNotes.snt de un PC a otro, PERO CON LA MISMA VERSION DE WINDOWS, entre diferentes versiones no es compatible.

 

Saludos.