# Cannot get evernote legacy to work. want to transfer from evernote to devonthink 3

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**Created:** [January 16, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017 "2022-01-16T00:38:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![djstern](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@djstern](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/djstern)\
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Unable to get evernote legacy to work. Want simple protocol to transfer evernote files to devonthink 3

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**Author:** ![DTLow](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/dtlow/32/18161_2.png) [@DTLow](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/DTLow)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/2 "2022-01-16T00:50:42Z")

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What’s the problem with Evernote/Legacy?  
This is better addressed in the Evernote forums

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**Author:** ![Eddy23](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/a587f6/32.png) [@Eddy23](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/Eddy23)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 5:37am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/3 "2022-01-16T05:37:04Z")

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Delete and reinstall EV legacy. Sync notebooks into DT one at a time.

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**Author:** ![gnaffle](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gnaffle](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/gnaffle)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/4 "2022-01-17T15:14:08Z")

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I also faced issues. I installed legacy, and used the import from evernote function but when selecting notebook from Evernote. It takes very long to get something up and running?

So any idea what the latest, best way is to import from evernote into DT as the import function now seems to be broken for the most recent version!

Thanks a lot

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**Author:** ![rpallred](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/rpallred/32/18214_2.png) [@rpallred](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/rpallred)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/5 "2022-01-17T15:53:58Z")

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As @Eddy23 mentioned as well, when I transitioned from EN to DT just over a year ago, I had to uninstall and reinstall Evernote Legacy before the export feature worked correctly.

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/6 "2022-01-17T15:56:04Z")

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- And how many notes are you anticipating importing?
- Is Evernote open when you try using the import command in DEVONthink?

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**Author:** ![djstern](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@djstern](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/djstern)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/7 "2022-01-17T16:34:48Z")

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What I have started doing is exporting all the notes in a folder. I can do about 24 at a time and placing them in a new database. Seems to be working. Bit of a pain. But straight forward. Regarding your question, yes. Nothing happens. New version of EN unresponsive. The legacy version never worked for me.

Peace

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**Author:** ![djstern](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@djstern](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/djstern)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/8 "2022-01-17T16:35:21Z")

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I have a few dozen folders, maybe 1000 notes altogether, something like that

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**Author:** ![DTLow](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/dtlow/32/18161_2.png) [@DTLow](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/DTLow)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/9 "2022-01-17T16:44:09Z")

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> [@gnaffle](#):
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> So any idea what the latest, best way is to import from evernote into DT as the import function now seems to be broken for the most recent version!

Try separating the export and import steps  
Using Evernote/Legacy; can you export a notebook to a .enex file

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/10 "2022-01-17T17:41:15Z")

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> [@djstern](#):
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> New version of EN unresponsive.

Correct. Evernote broke inter-application communication with Evernote 10.

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**Author:** ![Blanc](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/blanc/32/8008_2.png) [@Blanc](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/Blanc)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/11 "2022-01-17T17:43:26Z")

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> [@djstern](#):
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> New version of EN unresponsive

Assuming that [Evernote v10 still does not support AppleScript](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/evernote-import-broken-on-evernote-10-0/58777/3), that is not surprising.

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**Author:** ![gnaffle](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gnaffle](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/gnaffle)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/12 "2022-01-19T15:00:24Z")

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I now exported it to ENEX and dropped that into DT and that gave me a group with notes.

Not sure what is not included with this method? as I am just transferring notebook by notebook.

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**Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/13 "2022-01-19T15:14:48Z")

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That’s a viable alternative method. And transferring notebook-by-notebook is a good idea.

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**Author:** ![Airestocky](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/airestocky/32/461_2.png) [@Airestocky](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/Airestocky)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/14 "2022-01-19T17:10:29Z")

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I would check if date-of-creation/modification has been moved, as well as GEO location and, of course, the Tags.

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**Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cannot-get-evernote-legacy-to-work-want-to-transfer-from-evernote-to-devonthink-3/69017/15 "2022-01-19T18:11:59Z")

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+1 on what @rpallred and @Eddy23 mentioned. I was only using Legacy EN and I moved to DT only about a month ago and moved 9,000 notes over from 1-Notebook and had no issues on export, or import, although it did take a not insignificant time on each end.