I'm sorry to report that it fails for me after saving 5 to 7 Stickies [of my total of 22 Stickies notes]. I find it curious that the number of files it manages to create isn't exactly the same, each time I try.

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osxpounder

Does not work here, either. Managed to export zero of nine notes. No embedded images or other binary stuff. Hmm. Any ideas?

What kind of error did you get? Are you running Tiger on Mac OS X 10.4.4?

thx
RLC

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rlc

Hi,

No error, just no files got saved. Running 10.4.4 -- German is set as UI language (interestingly, even though "Stickies" is called "Notizzettel" in the localized version, the *process* name (see your script) is still "Stickies") .... hope this helps!

Sorry I am not able to help in this regards. I didn't test my script against other languages and in fact I always assume that these scripts were transparent to different languages- I guess I am wrong. Maybe someone else may be able to offer some advice in this area.

thx
RLC

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rlc

Nothing is exported (no files written) for me when I run this script. Best I can tell from the AppleScript log, the script is unable to get any window names:

tell application "System Events"
get name of every window of application process "Stickies"
{}
end tell

I'm running 10.4.5. Anyone else see this behavior?

This may be painfully evident, but you can also export all your stickies by saving as a PDF in the Print dialog. Exports the images as well and text is selectable for copy/paste operations. Of course, it's not as easy to export them separately, since it saves either one or all in one PDF, depending on the options you select.

Anyway, it worked for me. I just needed a backup of the info in all of my stickies and got it quickly that way...

I didn't know it was possible to print all notes... And just open the pdf file in Textedit and I am all done!
Nice.

How do you import them back into stickies if you need to use them again?

thx
RLC

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rlc

use the import menu.

One thing with this is, if your sticky is rich text of rtfd

then it will be stripped to plain text.



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mh

I was referring to how you import them back from pdf into stickies? When you do this, you lose some of the formatting. Plus it will not parse out the stickies.

thx
RLC

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rlc

It's definitely not the best way, but you can select the text from the PDF and copy/paste it into a new note. Haven't really had the need to import them yet...

Anyone else?

Interesting. Using Mac OS X 10.4.4 here, I can only print to PDF the first 44 notes -- using the "Print All Notes..." function. I have roughly 100 notes, each note is collapsed to just the title bar and sorted by color, and as it turns out sub-sorted by alpha.

Yes, Like an earlier poster, I found that Stickies will output a PDF file of all your stickies through the Print Dialog. Spotlight WILL search through the PDF file to locate the particular info you need.

only does the first bunch of notes, doesn't do them all. I end up with 10 pages of notes and 30 blank pages.

I got this error

error "System Events got an error: Access for assistive devices is disabled." number -1728 from every window of application process "Stickies"

Please help. OS version: 10.7.2

You need to turn on "Enable access for assistive devices" in the Universal Access System Preferences.

set theName to ""
set i to 0
set n to {}
set L to {}

set destFldr to (choose folder with prompt "Choose a destination folder:") as text
set mydestFldr to POSIX path of destFldr

tell application "Stickies"
	activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell application process "Stickies"
			set L to name of every window
			try
				repeat with awindow in L
					set m to value of text area 1 of scroll area 1 of window awindow
					set i to i + 1
					set theName to "stickies" & "_" & i & ".txt" as string
					set theFile to mydestFldr & theName
					do shell script "/bin/echo " & quoted form of m & " > " & quoted form of theFile
				end repeat
			end try
		end tell
	end tell
	display dialog "done"
end tell