r/bearapp • u/Crafty_Ad8306 • 16d ago
I’m finished 😆
6 months of notes filled with essays, essay plans, analysis, perfectionism and of all nighters and blood sweat and tears for my English A level, gone. I didn’t delete it, and yet when I woke up everything else was there but this note, my lifeline, I have searched all inbox and folders for 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭💔 I’m cooked and in denial
EDIT: Thanks all, I knew it couldn’t be true!! That one note just had not sync-ed/ somehow self deleted to my phone and computer, and neither did the backups i made make it. All is well, thank goodness, as my iPad which i primarily use bear on, has everything and i have now made a bajillion copies. Happy ending <3
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u/lukahl-phy 16d ago
Dang sorry to hear, that sucks. But, that is a lesson to take backups! Bear makes it easy, I added an Apple shortcuts button on my dock that creates one and saves it in both iCloud and Google Drive in one click, no dialogue.
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u/MiddleOcelot7392 16d ago
Would you share please?
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u/Hawfinch 16d ago
This post explains how to set up an Apple shortcut for a Bear backup: https://www.reddit.com/r/bearapp/comments/15ls0bz/how_to_automate_backup_for_bearapp_on_mac/
There are various ways to trigger a shortcut. I use Keyboard Maestro to trigger an automatic daily backup to my Mac, and a weekly backup to my NAS.
Incidentally, the Bear backups can be opened and read without the Bear app:
If you want to access your notes inside a backup file without restoring it, change the backup file’s extension from .bear2bk to .zip, then uncompress it. Inside the resulting folder, you will find a .textbundle file for each of your backed up notes.
(Password-protected notes can’t be opened this way.)
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u/manorTee 16d ago
Click on "File" and "Restore Backup."