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Recovering an earlier version of a file

Recovering an earlier version of a file

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Recovering an earlier version of a file

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- With the Windows 10 file history active. Here's how you recover an earlier version of a file. So, right-click on the file in question, and choose restore previous versions. The file's property dialog box appears, revealing older copies backed up by the file history feature or system restore. To restore previous version of the file. Select it, there's only one shown here, and it's selected. Click the open button. For this word document you see that it's open "Read Only." Now I can find whatever text is inside this document that I want to recover, I can copy that out or I could save this file under a new name to get the information I want. Now to confirm that you have file history active. Open the settings app, press the windows and I keyboard shortcut, choose update and security. Backup, and ensure that this item "Automatically back up files" is in the on position. If not, ensure that you have an external storage device…

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