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Rayquaza01 / note-taker

A Firefox addon that adds a text box to a toolbar button for taking notes.
MIT License
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All notes are gone. Where does note-taker store notes? #44

Closed bege10 closed 1 year ago

bege10 commented 1 year ago

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All notes in note-taker are gone. I need to know the storage location to restore them from a backup. I don't know when this happened because I didn't look for the notes for quite a while. This #36 closed issue does not solve mine. The problem with vanished notes is also mentioned a few times in the feedbacks on AMO.

Rayquaza01 commented 1 year ago

Hello, I'm very sorry that you lost your notes! Note Taker stores notes using the Webextension Storage API. The actual data on disk is stored in [firefox profile folder]/storage/default/moz-extension+++[extension uuid]^userContextId=4294967295/idb/3647222921wleabcEoxlt-eengsairo.sqlite (1). It should be noted that this SQLite file is compressed, so unless you know what you're doing you can't edit it directly. You should be able to restore from a backup, though.

If you don't know your Firefox profile location, you can find it listed on about:support. To find Note Taker's uuid, go to about:debugging, switch to the "This Firefox" tab, and find Note Taker on the list. The value you want is labeled "Internal UUID".

bege10 commented 1 year ago

Thank you for your answer. I found the database. 👍