Importing old StickiesDatabase file to Sequoia

RosieLR wrote:

I haven't used Stickies in a while. When I opened it on Sequoia, it was empty except for a couple starter notes. I found my old "StickiesDatabase" file, but I have been unable to have the notes imported into the new Stickies.

Older posts have said that they would be automagically imported and converted to the new format upon launch of Stickies, but that is not the case.

Anyone have any good way of importing them?

Since macOS Catalina StickiesDatabase is automatically migrated by the operating system.

Did you try launching the Stickies.app (?)

Finder>Go>Go To Folder, copy and paste:

~/Library/Containers/Stickies/Data/Library/Stickies

The Stickies folder itself would be

~/Library/Containers/Stickies/Data/Library/

Prior to macOS Catalina, the StickiesDatabase file in your local Library folder was a digest of your appended individual stickies. With Catalina and later, the Stickies application on its first launch splits each stickie from the old file into separate UUID-named RTFD folders that contain the respective stickies content as a rich text (RTF) file.

Afterward, the Stickies application should show these stickies unless the contributing StickiesDatabase file has become corrupted and the expected extraction failed.

The original StickiesDatabase file is then no longer used.

It is not a case of importing. The Stickies application splits and writes the individual stickiesdatabase digest entries into separate files on your drive and then simply reopens them once that is done.

If you open the StickiesDatabase file in (for instance) TextEdit, you will see that there is some Rich Text Format (RTF) markdown mixed with plain text as NSMutableData in a NSMutableArray. In short, that gibberish will not get converted during a paste event and you will just see that raw data in a new Stickie. I believe the Stickies application must process this internal StickiesDatabase content to perform the correct conversion.