Win8 file History How to recover a personal file

Press the "Win + W" key combination, we can directly into the WIN8 system "set" search, in the search box to enter "File History", from the search results on the left to see the relevant function options, click "File History" to enter the corresponding functional interface.

You can also open the Win8 Control Panel and select System and Security-file history to see the corresponding functional interface. This feature requires an external drive or network location, and if the current WIN8 device is not connected to an external drive, the WIN8 system prompts: "We recommend that the external drive be used for file history." Connect a drive and refresh this page, or use a network location.

Save File History

After inserting an external storage device such as a U disk, click the "Refresh" button.

Now the "File History" interface of the WIN8 system will show the USB disk that is connected. By clicking on the "Enable" button, the file History feature is enabled, and the status of the corresponding disk changes to "file history is the first time a copy of your file is saved" and displays information such as "File copy Source" and the available capacity of the target drive.

Open the USB disk used to save the "file history", you can see the "filehistory-User name-win8" path of the backup files, mainly configuration and data folders to save the system's configuration file and original file copy.

Related functions and Settings

Back to the Win8 "File history" Operation interface, the left side of the "Restore personal Files", "Select the Drive", "Exclude Folders" and "Advanced settings" and other rich features of the title link, click on a different title links can enter different features and settings interface.

Go to the Select drive interface to show all available drives, change which drive to use, or "Add network location." And you can also choose which user's files to back up here.

Exclude folders to set which items to exclude when backing up files.

The Advanced Settings interface contains a number of detailed setup options, such as the time interval for automatically saving a copy of a file, the size of the offline cache when the save location is a network location, and how much to keep the saved version.

The most important of course is "restore personal files", after the file has been saved by history, we can click the title option at any time to easily restore the relevant file status at the specified point of view.

Please click on the "Next page" and let's take a look at how the Win8 system's file History feature restores personal files.

Restore personal files

Go to the Restore personal file interface, you can see the date and time of the related backup, followed by "number/digit" means "several/a few backup versions", below shows what files are in the current backup version, these folders can be opened and viewed, you can also select a partial folder to do restore; The bottom provides a backup version with a forward and backward button switch at different times and a large circular "restore" button.

If you have multiple backups at different times, you can press the forward and backward buttons to select, and the "few/several backup versions" information above will change accordingly.

Click on the Green "Restore" button to enter the file history recovery process.

A file with the same name will have a replacement or skip action selection prompt.

Wait a minute. The WIN8 system completes the personal files of the selected Point-in-time and related objects that the user has previously saved. With the "File History" feature, if the original files on the WIN8 system are missing, corrupted, or deleted from the library, contacts, Favorites, SkyDrive, and desktop, we can easily restore and recover them.