It's monday and you want to take presentations that you have created over the weekend to office. So out comes your USB sitck. Ans as luck would have it, you may have mistakenly overwritten the current version with an old one. So does taht mean all your efforts are wasted?
Don’t panic. You can access earlier versions of files with the help of Snapshots. The prerequisite for this: The ‘System Restore’ for the hard disk must be activated. To do so, click ‘Start > Run > Control Panel‘ and click on ‘Performance and Maintenance’ and then ‘System’. In the classic view of the Control Panel, you can reach this window directly by double-clicking on ‘System’. On the left side of the window, select ‘System Restore’. Windows then requests you to select an account with administrator rights and enter the right password. Then check-mark the desired hard disks in the ‘Automatic Restore points’ field for system restore and confirm with ‘OK’. Windows archives old file version as soon as a system restore point is set; normally, once every day.
Unfortunately, not even change in a file leads to a snapshot being created immediately. The function therefore changes, which is another reason for backing up your own files regularly, and accessing Snapshots only in case of an emergency. For this, right click on the file in ‘Windows Explorer’, select ‘Properties’ in the context menu and activate the ‘Previous version’ tab. The ‘File Versions’ list provides an overview of all available versions. Mark the desired entry and click on ‘Open’. In order to save a copy of the marked version in the file system, click on ‘Copy’. With ‘Restore’, you make the marked copy current and thus overwrite the previous one.
Don’t panic. You can access earlier versions of files with the help of Snapshots. The prerequisite for this: The ‘System Restore’ for the hard disk must be activated. To do so, click ‘Start > Run > Control Panel‘ and click on ‘Performance and Maintenance’ and then ‘System’. In the classic view of the Control Panel, you can reach this window directly by double-clicking on ‘System’. On the left side of the window, select ‘System Restore’. Windows then requests you to select an account with administrator rights and enter the right password. Then check-mark the desired hard disks in the ‘Automatic Restore points’ field for system restore and confirm with ‘OK’. Windows archives old file version as soon as a system restore point is set; normally, once every day.
Unfortunately, not even change in a file leads to a snapshot being created immediately. The function therefore changes, which is another reason for backing up your own files regularly, and accessing Snapshots only in case of an emergency. For this, right click on the file in ‘Windows Explorer’, select ‘Properties’ in the context menu and activate the ‘Previous version’ tab. The ‘File Versions’ list provides an overview of all available versions. Mark the desired entry and click on ‘Open’. In order to save a copy of the marked version in the file system, click on ‘Copy’. With ‘Restore’, you make the marked copy current and thus overwrite the previous one.
