Thanks that’s no help at all ive lost a lot of important notes, I haven’t got google drive nor have I nextcloud account.
So I’m left with data loss due this app having beta features which I hadn’t used but allowed local storage at my risk which wasn’t pointed out at as I believed it was a default setting.
This has shook my confidence in iodé os as a reliable os.
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My knee jerk reaction I’m removing ALL the per installed apps , they can’t be trusted, I’ll reinstall direct from F-Droid.!
@kenrw8 if you go to <Your Device>/Android/data/com.spisoft.quicknote/files/notes in your file browser do you not see your notes there? I tested and by default it creates a .spd file for each note, which seems to be their own format (it is a compressed archive). Inside is an index.html with the contents of the note. So certainly this would need a bit of data massaging to get out of Carnet format into a more standard .md format or other.
I do see in the Carnet Settings you can instead use the “markdown editor” which then ends up with a standard .md file inside the .spd archive, so this would be better to get your data out.
Also Carnet offers to use their online backup location by default when you start using it, I don’t think you would like that option but it is a way for a backup. You would have to look into if that is storing the data encrypted, etc.
As noted, I think “Carnet” has not had active development for some time, so I don’t feel too optimistic that it may be useful going forward. I have recommended to the team that it is dropped as a default app but this wasn’t implemented yet. I think you will need to get your markdown files out via the File Manager and use another markdown notes app (Nextcloud Notes, etc.) I personally self-host a Joplin server (it can sync to Nextcloud but more reliable to use their own server backend to avoid conflicts). As you prefer “local only” there are a lot of options, Joplin would be simple that way for example. But there are many other note editors (first job is to hopefully recover your missing files however!)
Thanks , I appreciate the time taken to reply but those folders are empty as I’ve uninstalled carnet.
Also in frustration not seeing my notes, which had various recovery code , were not visible , I uninstalled carnet and reinstalled to see if they become visible on reopening but didn’t.
I’ve now gone old school and will write them down, nonetheless I lost access to being to recover my data. So I have registered the accounts,
Carnet I believed it had stored the notes locally, but also said to take care in using this feature, Also other feature were beta.
This killed my confidence in the pre installed apps, which I removed and replaced with ones/alternatives direct from f-droid.
So with installing probably deleted all my notes and reinstalling wouldn’t have restored the data.
You live and learn, pen and paper is best., technology is dubious.