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Windows 8 In Depth
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Windows 8 In Depth

by Brian Knittel, Paul McFedries
October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
64h 7m
English
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Restoring a Previous Version of a File

When you activate File History on your PC, as described earlier in this chapter, Windows 8 periodically—by default, once an hour—looks for files that have changed since the last check. If it finds a changed file, it takes a “snapshot” of that file and saves that version of the file to the external drive that you specified when you set up File History. This gives Windows 8 the capability to reverse the changes you have made to a file by reverting to an earlier state of the file. An earlier state of a file is called a previous version.

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If you need to remove the external drive temporarily (for example, ...

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