How to find and restore one note from Joplin backup

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Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.4.12

Desktop version info

Joplin 3.4.12 (prod, win32)

Device: win32, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Client ID: 9448653dfcd043e6a64f9c735fbec146
Sync Version: 3
Profile Version: 48
Keychain Supported: Yes
Alternative instance ID: -

Revision: e9a9f68

Backup: 1.4.3
Freehand Drawing: 3.1.0

What issue do you have?

Sometime a while ago a note file must have gotten deleted. I have Joplin backups that go back a year.
How do I find the missing note in the backup file and only restore that missing note?
thanks

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On Joplin desktop: Create a new profile in Joplin, import your backup. Then find the note you want, right click it and export just that note. Now you have a jex backup for just one note which can be imported into the desired profile

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thanks

i will give that a try

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When I restored my notes, I discovered that the ID’s were no longer the same. I had a bunch of external links pointing to specific notes and they did not work anymore. For instance joplin://x-callback-url/openNote?id=88a8a2154afd455fa60ca012412276a0 did not work anymore.