Import default notes folder from Boostnote Legacy

[derekantrican]

The old version of Boostnote (before the major overhaul) stored notes in %userprofile%\Boostnote. I'm not sure where the new version stores them, but the new version should check that directory for notes upon installation and "upgrade them" (whether that's just copying them to the new directory or actually doing some sort of upgrade). It's frustrating to go from the old version to the new version and suddenly your notes are all gone

[arcturus140]

I like this idea.

[Ahmed-E-86]

Any news about this feature?

[Flexo013]

This is feature is planned within the next month.

[Rokt33r]

We need to wait until the current importing flow is stable enough. I'll come back to this issue around the end of this month.

[jonnyeom]

Is there a new way to import notes? or is everyone just importing them one by one?

[Komediruzecki]

Hi, jonnyeom,

If you installed latest boost note local desktop app from separate repository, you can only import the storage from boost note next (this is a bug, it was fixed but need to be released).

So the workaround would be to install previous version from this repository and import from Preferences (import legacy tutorial: https://medium.com/boostnote/how-to-migrate-data-from-old-boostnote-efd8a5c7aa7d)

After that you will have file system storage you can move to latest boost note local app installed from here: https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next-local/releases/tag/v0.21.1

[Rokt33r]

@jonnyeom We have discarded the migration feature from our app completely. Currently, there is no easy way to migrate data from the legacy app to the new local app. We will prepare a migration script soon though. If you're urgent, you could try to migrate from v0.20.2 which probably still has the migration feature from the legacy app. https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next/releases/tag/v0.20.2 Once migration is done, you can delete the app and install the local app from here. https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next-local/releases
But it could be a bit difficult. If you need help, please join our slack and ping me(@Rokt33r) so I can help you directly.

[Ahmed-E-86]

Migrating from local to cloud does not work.