Restoring notes – can't run mac_apt_artifact_only.py

[Mmanojay]

Hi,
I lost all my notes suddenly (after I logged in to Notes app with my Gmail account). Spent quite a lot of time trying to understand where might be the problem. It had lead me here, discovering there is some sqlite database which is probably broken, and some tool for parsing its artifacts.
This is what I know and then it is a bit a world of wonder for me as I have very poor experience in coding. I tried to run python script in Terminal python ~/Downloads/mac_apt-master/mac_apt_artifact_only.py NOTES -o ~/Desktop/notes/NotesV7.storedata (NotesV7.storedata from Catalina backed up on desktop) according to some other thread, but it returned:

File "~/Downloads/mac_apt-master/mac_apt_artifact_only.py", line 47
plugins_info = f "The following {len(plugins)} plugins are available:"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I hoped for a miracle will happen, but now I am stuck. Can you please guide me little bit how to repair the code or even if it works, what to do next? :)

[ydkhatri]

What version of python are you using? The default one on older macOS is python2 , which is not supported by mac_apt. You should get python 3.10. Please follow the steps listed here:https://github.com/ydkhatri/mac_apt/wiki/Installation-for-Python3#macos-osx

[ydkhatri]

Closing for lack of response.