Now simply copy the new StickiesDatabase into the folder (optionally renaming the original first if you’d like) so it looks like this: Now on the new computer quit Stickies if it’s running, then make sure you can identify and find the newly copied file (tip: I just save it to my Desktop), then go through the same Go > Go to Folder… process to move to the ~/Library/ folder on the new computer. Once you’ve grabbed it, you’re done with the old computer and can put it away. You can email it to yourself, copy it to a flash drive, save it to DropBox or another cloud service, whatever. I’ve scrolled down a bit because the file you want to grab and copy to the new MacBook Pro is sitting right there amidst all the dozens of folders: StickiesDatabase. When you choose “Go to Folder…” it pops up a small window, and this is where you type in “~/Library/” as shown:Ĭlick on “ Go” and it’ll open up a Finder window with that folder: You can see there are a lot of choices on your system in terms of jumping directly to a location on your file system. To get to it you need to choose “ Go To Folder…” from the Go menu:

The folder you want isn’t shown, unfortunately: you need to get to your Library folder and that’s hidden from regular users so that you don’t mess things up. Now, pull out your old computer and open the Finder to your home directory. There is a way to export and import individual sticky notes, of course, but if you have a bunch of them, that’s way tedious and – fortunately! – unnecessary! You will need to get some ninja macOS skills ready for this one, however, and we’ll need to start out on the old computer.īefore we do, I well know the experience of using Stickies to keep track of things just to find that you launch it on the new computer post-migration and see this: “Notes” is and it’s darn useful to be able to access your iPhone notes on your Mac, and vice versa, but for some reason Stickies is rooted in the earliest design generation of the Mac, almost a demo program for new programmers at Apple! “Stickies” is a perfect example of an app that should be iCloud enabled, in my opinion.

Macbook sticky notes