From the course: Help Yourself: Tech Tips Weekly

Restoring files from a backup

- [Instructor] You backup diligently and are thankful for that one day when you must restore a file or folder. Here's how it works. Press the Windows + R keyboard shortcut to summon the Settings app. Choose Update and Security, Backup, More options. Now scroll way down to the bottom of the list and choose Restore files from a current backup. But before I do that, I'm going to show you the shortcut, now that you've been through all these steps, so that you'll appreciate how efficient it is. Press the Windows and R keyboard shortcut, and into the Open box type filehistory , all one word. Click OK. Your job here is to locate the file or folder you want to restore. But this is more than just a File Browser. You use these buttons down here to peruse files by date. So I'm going to go back in time and look at older versions that were backed up on this system. Now you can browse a folder to look for a specific file that might be available. And you can browse your history, there's a file that was deleted, it's not here, but it's here, and here are older versions of that same file. You can right click on some file types and choose Preview to see an older version of the file. Now to restore the file, click the big green Restore button. If the file you're restoring already exists, you'll be prompted whether to replace it, skip it, or just compare both file versions. Restoring files and folders from your file history backup is handy specifically when more than a file is lost or otherwise unrecoverable from the standard File History command which you can access by right clicking on a file. Be aware that restoring a file as shown in this movie is an option just in case that right click trick doesn't work or when disaster befalls your computer's Mass Storage System, and you need to recover more than just a single file.

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