I had to simplified my story so as to get to my question for help.
#EVERNOTE PREVIOUS NOTE VERSION FULL#
If the note history was taken when only the partial note was on the EN servers, then there won't be a copy of the full note in note history. Otherwise, it depends upon the status of the note when the note history was taken. So if the correct note lived on the EN servers for that long, there should be a good copy. Note history is only taken once every ~eight hours. If you have a premium account, you may be able to get the correct note from note history. But if you're modifying existing notes between devices, if you don't fully understand how EN works, you're eventually going to lose something.)
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(Just FYI, creating new notes is not of a concern, since as I said above, they are all given different GUIDs. It's crucial, when switching between devices to sync all changes UP before leaving one device/computer and syncing changes DOWN to the next device/computer you're using before making any changes. After all, this is one of the prime draws of Evernote - keeping your notes in sync across a multitude of platforms/devices. If you'd not touched the note until after the tablet had sync'd, everything would have been fine. And if the tablet note was not the full note when you modified it (IE added a space or line feed), that indicates the note had been modified on the tablet before it had sync'd the full note down from the EN servers. (Otherwise, the "date updated" time stamp of the note on the tablet would have been prior to even touching the note on the laptop.) There was no "assuming" going on. This is further substantiated when you say " it assumed that the note that I was writing on the tablet was the latest version based on the date & time", which indicates the "date updated" time stamp on the tablet had been modified after the laptop version. In this case, EN did exactly what it was supposed to do. sounds like you returned to the tablet & somehow modified the original, partial note there, before it sync'd, even if all you did was add a space or line feed.then the tablet sync'd. Then you started the laptop, sync'd the partial note down, finished it & then sync'd it up to the EN servers. What it sounds like you did is start the note on the tablet, then sync. In this case, both notes would have different GUIDs & you'd end up with two notes - the one from the laptop & the one from the tablet. The other scenario is if you'd started the note on your tablet but not sync'd, then finished the note on your laptop (by starting a new note).
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#EVERNOTE PREVIOUS NOTE VERSION DOWNLOAD#
If you'd started the note on your tablet & sync'd, then sync'd your laptop (to get the partial note onto your laptop) & finished the note on your laptop & sync'd (the completed note to the EN servers), when you started your tablet again, the sync'ing would download the note (from the EN servers) as it was on the laptop. IMO, it sounds like you left something out of this scenario b/c this is not the way Evernote works. Is there any way to revert back to a previous version before the sync? Anyway, the result is an old version got sync as a new version, and now I have lost all my work. However, the version on the tablet was old and the one on the server was new. But I made the mistake of not closing Evernote on my tablet after using it, so when I turned on my tablet, evernote was still running and started its sync, it assumed that the note that I was writing on the tablet was the latest version based on the date & time. I started composing a note on my tablet, and then finished it on my laptop. I use Evernote to write notes on my laptop and on my tablet.