Fixing Duplicate iCloud Accounts in Notes

Posted July 7th, 2012 @ 10:05am by Erik J. Barzeski

From this Apple discussion forum I fixed a problem that bothered me for weeks: duplicate iCloud accounts (and thus duplicate notes) in Mountain Lion's "Notes" app.

With Notes not running, on any computer that's affected, delete the folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes.

That's it.

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5 Responses to "Fixing Duplicate iCloud Accounts in Notes"

| Reply Vladimir Campos
Posted 07 Oct 2012 at 12:38pm #

Thanks! It worked here!
This issue was making me crazy!
| Reply jennifer
Posted 16 Oct 2012 at 10:16pm #

Thank you for the information. Helped me too!
| Reply Rusty
Posted 09 Jan 2013 at 1:54pm #

Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU! Those duplicates have been irritating me for months.
| Reply Adi
Posted 06 May 2013 at 10:15am #

Thanks from me as well!
Just one note, after you delete this folder, you have to go into the notes app and re-check the "notes" option in all the relevant accounts.

This worked for me, and has been annoying me to death!
thanks 🙂
| Reply Bocaboy
Posted 26 May 2013 at 3:11pm #

I've had the same problem, but unfortunately this didn't fix my problem. I still have two iCloud accounts showing up in Notes, one that syncs correctly with iCloud and my devices, and another also labeled iCloud which syncs with nothing.

Thanks for the suggestion!