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dskatter t1_j22gpp3 wrote

Reply to comment by Supa_Dingus in Accidentally deleted Notes app, redownloaded and everything was gone. Synced gmail and iCloud accounts but only recovered notes all the way up to 30 days ago. All of the notes I made after those 30 days are gone, I need them back. Recommended software or techniques or anything is very helpful. by Supa_Dingus

Oof. Yeah, notes take up such minimal space that deleting them wouldn’t have made a significant difference.

Next time, delete a game or something. :/ Sorry, but I suspect all that info is gone. I hope I’m wrong.

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gleep52 t1_j25u3zn wrote

Well his 30 days of backups shows 1000 notes - so perhaps he had tons of screenshots or other attachments and it showed up as one of the biggest apps to purge for space savings. If he had years of notes that could eat up a lot of space… sucks it’s gone though.

OP did you ever make ANY kind of local backups like with iTunes, imazing, or other usb backup utilities? You could probably find a way to recovery the notes db from that backup….

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dskatter t1_j25uyrs wrote

I have around 250 notes, some with voice notes pasted in.

The space used? 38.3 MB.

I doubt OP’s notes were much over 1-200 MB.

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gleep52 t1_j25x9f7 wrote

Video attachments? Who knows what they used it for…

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dskatter t1_j26154m wrote

Either way, I think OP has learned a valuable lesson about deleting things that one needs without having at LEAST two reliable backups.

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Feeling-Orange3229 t1_j26jp0x wrote

38.3MB for you 250 notes. OP’s screenshot shoes from the last 30 days 1000 notes. Who knows how many before he deleted the notes app. So I would say it’s possible for OP’s notes before he deleted to be a couple gigs. 250 notes - 38.3mb is roughly 6.5MB/ 1 note. 6.5MB times 1000 notes is 6500MB which is 6.5GB.

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Supa_Dingus OP t1_j22h1ox wrote

At least the other ones won’t be disappearing. Thanks for trying

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paulstelian97 t1_j23prda wrote

Also try to use the offload function in the future. It's less effective than the full deletion, BUT you don't lose data for apps except if they disappear from the App Store.

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