Notes: New Note disabled

App & System Services Core OS Beta macOS

jmetillon OP

Created Jul ’15

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Hello,

I have Notes 4.0 (512) running on OS X 10.11 (15A226f). I cannot create a new note. Using the shortcut cmd+N. And the menu item File > New Note is disabled (grayed). I can only create folders.

All my notes are stored on iCloud. I have space available on my iCloud storage plan. Notes sync with iCloud is activated. I restarted my Mac; it did not help.

Did anyone encouter that? Is this a feature or a bug? I Google for this and found nothing.

I can't remember if it happened right after updating to 15A226f or a while after.

Also to note, I had an issue with no free storage available on iCloud. I fixed it by deleting an iOS backup to reclaim 4GB.

Thank you!

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DMNM2303 OP

Jan ’24

Had this problem today in Jan 2023 & the recommended solution still works, Thank you.

nocturneisabundant OP

Jan ’24

I ran into the same problem and almost panicked because I thought I lost all of my notes after running an update to my OS. Try going to View... and then select Show Folders. Somehow, Google decided to create a Google folder that was of course empty because I've never used it before, so I thought I lost all of my notes; when in reality, all I had to do was navigate to the folder view.

Hope this helps