Accidentally bulk deleted notes
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I just pressed Command+A and then backspace (i thought i was just deleting all the text of a current note, but I actually had the note itself selected in the Notes list), and THOUSANDS of my notes immediately got deleted. I see them all in Trash, but I can only restore them one at a time.
Can you please help me bulk restore these notes? This is obviously very concerning for me, and I don’t have time to individually restore each and every note when there are thousands of them. I tried to command Z to undo the deletion, but undo doesn’t seem to work for bulk deleting of notes, and there also wasn’t a confirmation dialog or anything like that.
Would really appreciate some help ASAP, as I’m worried about my notes being deleted permanently.
Thanks in advance!
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Hi there! @jonlemmon1 – I’m sorry to hear your notes are in the trash folder. Unfortunately, you do need to restore each one individually. A bulk restore is not available.
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Okay, so just to clarify: Simplenote let’s you bulk delete all your notes, without a confirmation dialog. But it doesn’t let you bulk restore your notes.
This is a pretty bad situation. I had to spend two hours restoring all my notes from the trash.
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Hello @jonlemmon1,
There is an undo option that displays shortly after deleting the notes. We’d be happy to forward this over to the team though, for future consideration.
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WHEW, this is not an elegant workaround, but it did recover most of my notes. What I did is the following:
- login to https://app.simplenote.com, go to Settings > Tools > Export Notes
- extract the downloaded ZIP (notes.zip)
- in the notes folder, there’s a trash folder
- select the *.txt files in trash folder and move them into the parent notes folder
- go to Settings > Tools > Import Notes
- all your selected *.txt files will be restored as notes
- NOTE: #ymmv (your mileage may vary)
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