Note Recovery Alternatives It appears that by switching iCloud accounts on my MacBook, ALL the notes stored in Notes.app have disappeared/been deleted. These notes were not synced with iCloud -- and Time Machine was disabled.

I understand that there's a possibility that these notes still exist somewhere on my Mac HD.

Where would I look for these notes? How can I restore them?
they should be in the 

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/

suggested settings to keep a copy on your hard drive