Screenshots: Windows 8 File History (updated)

by Greg Shultz | January 25, 2013, 11:56am PST | Image 15 of 15

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You can compare files by date and time as well as size

If from the Replace or Skip Files dialog box you selected Compare, you would see a window like the one shown in Figure O, which is titled File Conflict, and shows you the file's date and time stamp as well as the file's size. You would select the check box adjacent to the one that you want to keep and click Continue.

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File History's user interface makes it easy to take advantage of this data protection tool. Will you use File History? Are you using File History? If so, what has been your experience? As always, if you have comments or information to share about this topic, please take a moment to drop by the TechRepublic Community Forums and let us hear from you.

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If you want to restore a...

Greg Shultz Updated - 25th Feb

...single file using File History, you can do that--you don't have to restore all of them.

While you can just launch File Explorer and access the files that File History stores in its backup folder on your external drive, that is not the way that it is meant to be used.

When you use File Explorer, you will see the data and time stamp appended to the file by File History to keep track of the different versions of the backup.

When you restore a file through File History, the data and time stamp is removed from the file. So, as long as you use File History to restore files, you won't have to be concerned with renaming all of the files.

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dogknees 24th Feb

Thanks for the response. I had a look and I still can't see where it's saving every change. It uses transactions to determine when to save a version, but doesn't say whether it saves all changes made in that period as separate snapshots/copies/...

If it's set to 10 minutes and I save 10 different versions in the 10 minutes, does it provide rollback to each one of those versions?

It also appears that it saves the whole file. I had thought it would be smart and save only the deltas so it can reconstruct the file at any point. Am I reading it right?

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Help with file history

andrewjfeller 23rd Feb

Hey guys, I was hoping you can help me with a problem I am having. I like the file history option, I have it saved to an external hard drive and it works great. The only problem I have is, If I want to copy files back over, without restoring all files, the file names now have a date added to the end of it. Is there anyway to keep this from happening? I have thousands of files, and I can't imagine having to rename all of them.

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Screenshots: Windows 8 File History (updated)

You can compare files by date and time as well as size