Trying to restore Sticky Notes

[j.snyder7485]

I'm trying to move my sticky notes from one Windows 10 laptop to another. The first Windows 10 laptop stores the sticky notes in an .snt file in an appdata folder. I put that file on an external drive. The second laptop has an updates version of Windows 10 I guess. The sticky notes app is not stored in the appdata folder, and the sticky notes are stored in a plum.sqlite file. I tried following instructions I found to restore my sticky notes by converting them from .snt to plum.sqlite.
I went to the app location on the second laptop, which is here:
%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState

I then created a new folder called Legacy in the LocalState folder and copied the .snt backup file into the Legacy folder. After that, I should have been able to open the app and see my old sticky notes, but all that came up was a new sticky note. I tried deleting the plum.sqlite file in the LocalState folder and opened the app again. Same thing. Just a new sticky note.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[gardenman]

Hi, I just created a .SNT file (with 3 notes) with an older Sticky Notes and tried to import it into the new Sticky Notes. It was unsuccessful.

I thought that maybe the notes are stored in some type of archive so I tried opening the file in [7-Zip] and that worked. While browsing the archive, I noticed 3 folders (since I had 3 notes I thought that maybe each note has a folder in the archive) and I went into one of the folders and seen several files named "0", "1", and "3". I extracted the "0" file out and opened it with a text editor and figured out it was rich text, or a .RTF file. I renamed it to a .RTF file and it opened in Wordpad. It's one of the 3 sticky notes.

So each folder inside of the .SNT archive has a file called "0" in it which is the sticky note, in rich text format.

To access them, open the .SNT file in 7-Zip, go into each folder, extract the "0" file and rename them to note1.rtf, note2.rtf, note3.rtf, etc, and they can be opened in Wordpad.

If you only had a handful of Sticky Notes then this is probably an option for you. If you had a ton of Sticky Notes, you may want to look elsewhere.

Watch what I did here, it makes more sense when you see it: https://imgur.com/a/3wBB50z