Needed to export all the notes I have on my iPhone 10 but don’t have iTunes or anything.

And the only option on the phone is going to each individual note, pressing the share button, and “Save to Files”.

One. At. A. Time.

But then I went “AH HA!”

I moved all the notes on my phone to iCloud, and then did the data export thing the EU made requirable years back.

Well I just got the zip file today and… Some of the files don’t extract.

Oh the exist in there! But uh… Well you know how file systems have reserved characters? And you know how “:” is a common character inside titles for documents and things?

Can you uh… Can you guess what Apple did here?

“/” is substituted in file names, but nothing else!

What a pain in the fucking ass.

Fortunately I have Debian installed on my computer, so I can just do all this “properly” when I get home, but my god how incredibly annoying!