Stickies dashboard

I accidentaly deleted a very important sticky on my dashboard.
Using time machine, I can't find an older version of the "StickiesDatabase" file in My user's library, as told in many other topics. Where can I find it ?
Thanks for help,
Kirsten

Kristen,
Mine is here: Home / Library / StickiesDatabase
Try this: Go to this folder in a Finder window.
If you don't see the file your looking for, leave the window open and click the Time Machine Dock icon to enter the "time travel" interface.
Now click back in time WITHIN this folder until the StickiesDatabase appears.
It will have been in this folder at some point, so you should come across it eventually as you go back through previous backups.
Let us know if this resolved your issue.
Cheers!

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