With the StickiesDatabase file from the older Mac (running Mojave), we ran Stickies and it brought in all of the old Stickies. The stuff in the Containers folder looks like where the Stickies app might be storing the authoritative data, so I backed up the current contents then deleted the and folders. Users/USER/Library/Caches//Generated/*10.2 Users/USER/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Application Scripts/ Users/USER/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Stickies/.SavedStickiesState Users/USER/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Stickies Users/USER/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Preferences/ Users/USER/Library/Scripts/Applications/Stickies I went to the Terminal and searched for everything in the Library folder with Stickies in the name: find ~/Library -name '*Stickies*' -print 2>/dev/null So, how to get her machine back to the first run state? On subsequent runs, it does not do this, so replacing the StickiesDatabase file does nothing. My guess is that the first time Stickies runs, it sees it doesn't have existing data, checks to see if there's a StickiesDatabase file, and copies any notes found there to the real database. It seems the StickiesDatabase is perhaps an alternate rendering of some other authorative representation of the Stickies data. I believe that's because she ran Stickies, found her notes missing and contacted me whereas I had never run Stickies on my test Mac. Then I tried it on her machine and it didn't work, instead of showing her zillions of notes, it showed just the default introduction notes. As a test run, I tried doing that on a test Mac also running Big Sur and it worked. Consulting the web, I found a number of pages that described mixed results copying over the ~/Library/StickiesDatabase file. One thing that didn't come over was her vast collection of Stickies. That all worked as expected, yielding a new, clean machine. I manually copied over documents, photos, etc., but not any applications or Library contents. I recently set up a new Mac (MacBook Air M1 2020 running Big Sur) for a friend and we decided not to use the Migration Assistant to copy the data from her old Mac.
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