In the Previous Versions tab, you can see snapshots made of the folder as a whole. You do this by right-clicking on some white space in the folder and selecting the Properties option. In the event of a file being renamed or deleted, you have to view the previous version of the the containing folder. If a file is deleted, there is obviously no file to view the previous versions of. You will be prompted to confirm you really want to do this.īut what about the Word Document we renamed or the Excel file we deleted? When you open the previous versions of the renamed file, there is nothing there.
Clicking the Copy button will prompt you for the location where you want to create a copy of the selected version.This is the file at the time to snapshot was taken. Clicking the Open button will open the the selected copy in the default program.Select the version you want to view or restore from. In the Previous Versions tab of the file’s Properties dialog, you will see all of the previous versions (or snapshots) of this file which have been captured. So in the event we need to recover a previous version of the file, simply right-click on the file and select the Restore Previous Versions menu option.
Once the text file is closed, we lose the ability to undo our changes. Now we are going to permanently delete (Shift+Delete) the Excel file,
