Maybe because Evernote would rather you lose data than let you leave for other software? Why do you think Evernote made this customer -hostile choice? The one bright spot is I had to spend so much time in my new app adding the data back that I learned a lot of its features and now I like it a lot more than Evernote.Įvernote made a lot of user-hostile decisions, like forcing out buggy, broken, pre-alpha code on paying customers, forcing paying customers to serve as unpaid beta testers, refusing to provide any more security patches to legacy, killing legacy Android and iOS apps, etc. It took a long time to sort it out and I am still not sure I have fixed it all. I now had two incomplete sets of data - a very bad position to be in.

I got hit by Evernote's known bug, and did not know my Evernote material exported with missing data until a month or so after I had converted to another note app and had added hundreds of notes. Evernote KNOWS your note backups may well be corrupt, but they won't tell you or fix their broken exporter EVEN THOUGH THEY KNOW HOW. For OVER TWO YEARS Evernote chose to continue corrupting user data if users try to leave Evernote (or try to backup). Worse, a user WROTE CODE to fix this bug for Evernote, so Evernote could now fix the data loss in an afternoon. Evernote will not even warn people trying to leave.

Evernote has known about it for years and has not fixed it. There is a KNOWN BUG in the Legacy exporter than loses data. I'm seeing a lot of people posting about how they are trying to protect themselves from Evernote's broken, buggy, flaky performance through backups using the Legacy app.

Evernote help database corrupted