Other members of a Homegroup will be able to use this backup drive to run File History

...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.

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?

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.