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You don’t need to rely on Google Drive or use a simple but manual copy and paste method to transfer Sticky Notes notes from one computer to another. Now you can do this with Sticky Notes 3.0+. Last year, Microsoft released Sticky Notes (3.0) with the updated October 2018 update. This new version of Sticky Notes has some interesting ones features such as dark mode, format and search function. In addition, it offers the ability to sync notes between computers, Android phones and another iPhone. This article shows you how to share notes between computers with different operating systems.
To share and sync Sticky Notes with another Windows 10 computer, you need to sign in to Sticky Notes 3.0+ with a Microsoft account on both computers for Sticky Notes to automatically appear on the new device. Note, however, that changes made to one computer will affect other computers as well, as the synchronization process is still in progress. Unfortunately, Sticky Notes cannot do this by default. It just saves your notes per user account. However, with a little hacking, you can sync your notes across multiple users and computers. This guide show yourself how to Knife.
close sticky notes
If you keep Sticky Notes open, the entire procedure will fail. Make sure you are closed on all user accounts for which you want to perform this procedure.
Sticky Notes saves your data in a hidden folder that is not shown by Windows Explorer on Windows 7 or File Explorer on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. To find it, you need to enable “Show hidden files, folders and drives” in Windows / File Explorer. ONE tutorial showing how to enable this option and others can be found here: How to enhance Windows and File Explorer using Folder Options.
Back up your sticky notes
The following procedure is subject to errors and problems if you are not very careful. That’s why it’s best to create a backup of your existing Sticky Notes first. Open Windows / File Explorer and go to “C: Users Your Username AppData Roaming Microsoft Sticky Notes”. Be sure to replace “Your username” with the name of your user accounts. Then copy the file named StickyNotes.snt to a USB drive or another folder on your Windows device. All your notes are saved in that file.
Download and run Steam Mover
Steam Mover is an application created by Paul Traynier to help you move your Steam games from the “C:” drive to another partition and folder. However, it can also be successfully used for our purpose of syncing Sticky Notes. The app uses NTFS junction points – a more complex Windows system feature which is used by Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, which allows creating symbolic links between folders found in different locations. Creating such symbolic links involves using the Command Prompt and understanding many complicated terminology and commands.
Steam Mover is amazing because it eliminates all the complexity and anyone can work with it without too many problems. When running the Steam Mover, be sure to right-click (or hold) it and click/tap “Run as administrator”.
Use Steam Mover to create a symbolic link for your sticky notes
On the left side of the Steam Mover window, where it says “Steam Apps Common Folder”, select the folder where Sticky Notes currently saves your data: “C: Users Your Username AppData Roaming Microsoft”. Be sure to replace Your username with the actual username. Do not select the Sticky Notes subfolder, only its main one – the Microsoft folder. You will soon see why.
On the right, where it says “Alternate Folder”, select the folder where you would like your sticky notes to be stored in the future. Here too, just select the parent of the folder where your notes will be stored. For example, I want to save my notes to “D: OneDrive Sticky Notes” so that my notes are synced not only between local users but also across my different Windows devices with the help of my OneDrive account. In my case, that means I chose to select “D:OneDrive”.
Repeat this procedure for all computers and/or user accounts to which you want to sync your Sticky Notes
Sticky notes are now moved, but only to your user account. If you want to do the same thing with other user accounts so that they work with the same set of Sticky Notes, log out of your user account and log in to the others one by one and repeat the procedure.
The same goes for all computers between which you want to sync your Sticky Notes. Log in to these computers and repeat the procedure using the same cloud storage account, either OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.
Copy the backup up Sticky notes for the new location
after defining up all user accounts and/or computers, you will find that your Sticky Notes are empty, missing. Take the backup file you created in Step 2 and copy it to the new folder where the sticky notes are stored.
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