What were you doing I’m trying to use the CLI to add attachments to some notes.
/Applications/Bear.app/Contents/MacOS/bearcli attachments add --title "asdf" < ~/Desktop/Screenshot\ 2026-03-15\ at\ 9.22.33 PM.png --filename "file.png"
Error: No note with title: asdf (in notes — use note ID for trash/archive)
What feature did you use: bearcli
What happened
This error, time after time. No matter whether Bear is running or not. Tried across several hour today. Across restarts of the machine. Across a macos version upgrade
What did you expect to happen
I expect the bearcli attachments add command to be able to add attachments to notes
At the same time, I’ve seen some attachments on some notes apparently disappear. I can see them if I search inside the bear ~/Library/Group Containers/9K33E3U3T4.net.shinyfrog.bear/Application Data/ directory… but they don’t show up, either as previews in the list view nor on the note view.
This is not true for all of my notes, but for a handful of them.
I tried creating new notes with the same attachments and had the same problem. This problem (viewing attachments) is affecting my ios devices as well.
Is there a way to reset sync or the bear db so-to-speak without deleting all my notes?
It seems the note must already exist to add an attachment to it. I got it to work doing this. If you give the attachment a different name, be sure to include the file extension (which you did), else Bear sees it as just data. If you use the fish shell, you’ll need to remove the $. It would be nice to be able to create the note and add an attachment in a single command
cat 'CleanShot 2026-05-12 at 12.52.39@2x.png' | bearcli attachments add $(bearcli create "Brand New Note" --fields id) --filename 'My Screenshot.png'
Thanks so much for the response. This is a good pointer. In my case it didn’t help and my note was pre-existing, but I might’ve guessed it would create the note if it didn’t exist.
I haven’t been able to reproduce it with commands because the attachment cli ALWAYS fails with the above message for me right now. This is true for both exact title matches and for adding attachments by note id. I’ve tried it on many different existing notes I’ve created new notes for the purpose. It seems to be perpetually stuck
The CLI did work for me at first, it just stopped being able to attach images in the least few days, around the same time as I noticed the other problem
I can reproduce the failing attachments through the UI over and over again on at least the same note, but what’s scaring me is how I’m seeing attachments disappear on notes that I know previously had them, even in one case a note had checked the same day.
Hence, I’m not terribly interested in reproducing it, rather, I’m looking for a way to safely reset my syncs or the local instance of the app to the state on my other devices
I’m trying to use the CLI to add attachments to some notes.