# Renamed the "notes" Notebook to something else and upon synchronising I lost everything

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/renamed-the-notes-notebook-to-something-else-and-upon-synchronising-i-lost-everything/44086>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [28 February 2025 14:34 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/renamed-the-notes-notebook-to-something-else-and-upon-synchronising-i-lost-everything/44086 "2025-02-28T14:34:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![lzambarda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2acd7d/32.png) [@lzambarda](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/lzambarda)\
**Post date:** [28 February 2025 14:34 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/renamed-the-notes-notebook-to-something-else-and-upon-synchronising-i-lost-everything/44086/1 "2025-02-28T14:34:10Z")

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### Operating system

macOS

### Joplin version

3.2.12

### Sync target

Dropbox

### Editor

Rich Text Editor

### What issue do you have?

I had three notebooks (was still getting the hang of it after months). One was work related, the other one was a generic "notes" and the third was for travelling.  
I discovered one can nest notebooks, so I renamed "notes" to "Personal" and then dragged "travelling" inside of it.  
As soon as Joplin synchronised, "Personal" disappeared, and with it all my personal notes. Is there a way to recover the notes or have I lost everything? I would like to recover my notes.

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [28 February 2025 14:39 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/renamed-the-notes-notebook-to-something-else-and-upon-synchronising-i-lost-everything/44086/2 "2025-02-28T14:39:32Z")

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If you go to "Help =\> Create deletion log" it should explain what happened. Would you mind sharing this log?

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**Author:** ![personalizedrefriger](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/personalizedrefriger/32/13210_2.png) [@personalizedrefriger](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/personalizedrefriger)\
**Post date:** [28 February 2025 17:02 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/renamed-the-notes-notebook-to-something-else-and-upon-synchronising-i-lost-everything/44086/4 "2025-02-28T17:02:40Z")

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> [@lzambarda](#):
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> As soon as Joplin synchronised, "Personal" disappeared, and with it all my personal notes. Is there a way to recover the notes or have I lost everything?

Joplin automatically creates a backup every 24 hours. This backup should be stored in `/Users/YourUserName/JoplinBackup/`. See [joplin-plugin-backup/FULLRESTORE.md at master · JackGruber/joplin-plugin-backup · GitHub](https://github.com/JackGruber/joplin-plugin-backup/blob/master/FULLRESTORE.md).

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [30 March 2025 17:02 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/renamed-the-notes-notebook-to-something-else-and-upon-synchronising-i-lost-everything/44086/5 "2025-03-30T17:02:47Z")

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