

I hope that helps, let me know if you have any trouble. Simply copy or move it out of the directory to a safe place. You should back that file up before replacing it. If you do write files to disk, whether it’s Dropbox or elsewhere, your Notes & Settings file will be in that folder. If you keep your notes in the database only (you don’t write files to disk), your Notes & Settings file will be in ~/Library/Application Support/Notational Data/Notes & Settings, where the ~ is your user’s home directory.

If you do have a backup, just restore it, overwriting the current version. Time Machine may be of assistance, or BackBlaze/Mozy/Arq, etc.
#NVALT NATIONAL VELOCITY UPDATE#
More instructions on that as soon as I get the interim update out. When the final 1.0.8 comes out, it should be able to use the original database, which Simplenote and/or Dropbox will have kept up-to-date. You will, however, lose your local tags (Simplenote tags will be fine). If you import from Dropbox, you can store both preference files in the Dropbox folder, and your notes will show back up from there. If you sync with Simplenote and don’t run both versions at the same time, your notes will stay the same. In the meantime, I will soon be posting an interim version which switches the database it uses, creating a new one with a different name. I’m working on the next version of nvALT, but incorporating the changes is proving tedious and it’s going to be a little while (a week or two, I think). The database changes, and even though it offers to run anyway, either button quits the app. If you’ve run the newest version of Notational Velocity, you may have noticed that you can no longer run nvALT ( as mentioned here). Unimportant update: its an update, not an udpate.
