Just thought I would share what worked for me. I don’t pretend to understand how or why the solution works. If you only have one user, my solution to get the files off my desktop would require that you set up another user? I imagine this would overwrite any saved notes in my library, but in my case that was not an issue. I switched to another user and copied the same files and overwrote the current files in my user library and preferences folders. I didn’t like having these files on my new. Open a Sticky note and it should be on your screen. In the Library folder, select 'Preferences' folder and find the file “”. Go to the Library and drag the file “StickiesDatabase” to your desktop.

Open Finder, in ‘Places’ select your user. I searched other forums and found this solution. From the Stickies Menu Bar, I can see the note was created by selecting the “Windows” menu item, but the note is nowhere to be seen on the desktop. I create a sticky note (Mac Sticky Note - not Widget sticky) and don’t see anything on the screen - no note is visible.

Desktop sticky notes for mac