-f or --file not working

[adamjerickson]

I am trying to extract notes from my daughter's ipad. I recovered the NoteStore file and am trying to run this on my mac which also has Notes. But my local notes are not the desired NoteStore. I am using thie -f and --file option, but it is always only extracting the default notes file.

I have them in a folder on my desktop. I am in that directory. This is the command I'm running.

apple-notes-liberator --file=NoteStore.sqlite --json

have also used

apple-notes-liberator --file=./NoteStore.sqlite --json

Have tried -f with above paths with same result. Have also tried --markdown output with same result.

Version is

xxxxxx@xxxxxx LizRecoveredNotes % apple-notes-liberator --version                     
2.2.3

[adamjerickson]

xxxxxx@xxxxxx LizRecoveredNotes % ls -l
total 81152
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 adamerickson  staff  41541632 Jul  2 21:33 NoteStore.sqlite
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 adamerickson  staff       261 Jan 20  2021 NotesIndexerState-Legacy
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 adamerickson  staff       261 Jul  2 21:33 NotesIndexerState-Modern
-rw-r--r--@ 1 adamerickson  staff         0 Jul  2 23:23 SharingExtensionDeviceUUID
-rw-r--r--@ 1 adamerickson  staff         0 Jul  2 23:23 SharingExtensionWriteLock
-rw-r--r--@ 1 adamerickson  staff         0 Jul  2 23:23 com.apple.notes.databaseopen.lock

[alexkolson]

Hey @adamjerickson! Reviewing the code I found a glaring mistake - even though I was checking to see if a file existed at the path provided unter the -f or --file flag, I was always taking the hardcoded notestore path. 🙄 I'm not sure if it was always this way or if I broke it along the way. I've just released v2.2.4 that should fix this and actually use the file provided via the command line -f or --file option. Could you give it a try and let me know if it works for you?

[alexkolson]

Hello @adamjerickson I am going to close this, if the issue still persists with the latest version please do not hesitate to open a new issue.