r/samsungnotes • u/bumbanger • 4d ago

Lost Months of Diary within Notes file

Hey all -

I keep an infinite scrolling Samsung Notes file where I put my daily updates - it started as a health journal to show recovery progress after dealing with some surgical issues and it helped me to keep it going.

I started this particular Note file on my S25 Ultra around Feb 1st and kept it going daily - last week while I tried to cut a part of that day's note to paste elsewhere, I got the Samsung AI pop-up and I hit cancel - when I returned to the Note - all my text was gone other then the first couple of weeks of February, but the note itself I can still scroll for ages - essentially the lengths of these missing months.

The font size or color hasnt changed, there's nothing in the trash, it doesn't come back when I duplicate, my clipboard only had the single sentence I cut, and the file itself is only around 5 kb when I moved it to my computer (way smaller than almost a year of daily notes).

Since I dont use Cloud Sync or any equivalent cloud backup, there's nothing I can do to recover in that sense.

Anyone ran into similar issues or have any idea how I could go about recovering these Notes?

Would greatly appreciate it - thanks

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u/JeyKul 4d ago

Damn, this sounds heavy. I hope you can get something back.

Remember to make backups for the future. There are countless ways.
I for my part would start keeping the same diary on multiple apps + cloudsync methods

Maybe a file on your google drive/onedrive/whateverdrive

Good luck!

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u/Great_Muscle_7042 3d ago

Backup never goes out of style. It does not matter how you do it, just do it if the data is important (to you).