Have you ever done a clean installation of your Mac OS? Have you ever wanted to do one? Have you ever wanted to have your stickies back on your dashboard without having to recover the entire backup? Here's how to recover dashboard stickies from time machine backup.
Recover Dashboard Stickies
I wish to move my data from my Mac to Windows 10 via Time Machine backups. The data location could be an external storage device, a secondary storage drive on your Mac, an internet server, or Time Capsule, a proprietary Apple device. An ideal time machine runs a backup every time you initialize a reboot. 1.Time Machine produces hourly backups. The Time Machine keeps adding backup files as long as there is enough space on the backup disk. When the drive is full the Time Machine deletes old backups to free space for new data. While the Time Machine deletes old versions of the file it never deletes the latest one. When TM deletes it still keeps the latest version of the file. To get started, plug in your drive and head over to the Time Machine tab in System Preferences. Select your disk, pick any folders that you want to exclude from the backup, and start the process.
All you need to do is to go to this address on your Time Machine backup:
~/Users/YourUser /Library/Preferences/
And restore these files (simply copy/paste and replace):
com.apple.dashboard.plist and com.apple.dashboard.client.plist
There! Restart your Mac and you'll have your stickies back in no time!
Finding the Library folder
By the way, I know, finding Library folder could be a bit tricky. So here's how to do it:
On the Menu Bar in Finder, Library folder will show up if you hold down Alt (Option) key.
Finder ▹ Go ▹ [Hold down Alt (Option) key] ▹ Library
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My Story
Well, this has happened to me more than once! And this little trick has come handy both times as I usually have a lot of info on my dashboard stickies! And I think everybody does. It's just because they're always there for quick notes!
Anyways, after doing a clean installation of OS X Mavericks (or Yosemite.. or more recently, El Capitan; or even more recently, MacOS Sierra) about a week ago, today, I needed my stickies back! I had an account login on one of them (talk about security and privacy! Right!? lol ) And I didn't want a full backup restoration. It felt like 'what's the point of a clean installation if I put everything back in it!?' Although it is not really the case!
And I thought, I've needed to recover dashboard stickies a couple of times, I might need to again! So I wrote it down for myself. Then I thought 'Alright, don't be selfish! What's your blog for!?' So it became this post.
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Hope it helps you as much as it helped me! Let me know in the comments.
Update 1:
It works for OS X Yosemite as well.
Update 2:
And again, it works for OS X El Capitan just fine too.
Update 3:
The trick still works, even though it's called MacOS Sierra now.
Update 4:
You guessed it right! You can recover dashboard stickies on MacOS High Sierra as well.
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Update 5:
How To Time Machine Backup
I think this will go on for some time, but you can recover dashboard stickies on MacOS Mojave Toast 15 titanium. as well.