How do I recover Joplin notes if they were never exported?
Sebastian Wright
I have an old Ubuntu machine that no longer works, but I can still access its drive through a live USB. None of the notes were ever exported; though, I was expecting to recover them by some other means. How do I do this? I see the Joplin app folder/files and that it was installed on the machine via snap.
1 Answer
Those are stored in an SQLite database. Default location (normal and snap):
~/.config/joplin-desktop/database.sqlite
~/snap/joplin-desktop/current/.config/joplin-desktopFind the one you are after on your system and then from command line you can do ...
sqlite3 ~/.config/joplin-desktop/database.sqlite
sqlite3 ~/snap/joplin-desktop/current/.config/joplin-desktopand then use the SQL language to view and dump data from it. .help will show available options.