{"id":9942,"date":"2015-08-16T17:34:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2015-08-16T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T22:17:53","slug":"windows-10-has-a-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-10-has-a-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 has a time machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows 10 has a time machine — it’s called File History<\/h1>\n

Windows 10 has a feature called File History which allows you to restore accidentally deleted, altered or corrupted files, quickly and easily. First, before you can take advantage of the Windows time machine – File History – you must turn it on. There are two ways to do this, but we find the Control Panel the easiest way to turn on File History.<\/p>\n

NOTICE: YOU MUST HAVE AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE IN ORDER TO USE FILE HISTORY.<\/p>\n

Right-click on your Windows 10 start button and click on Control Panel. If you are not already in Large icon view, switch to Large icons by selecting it in the View by: field (shown below highlighted in green). When you are in Large icons view you will have the contents of the Control Panel displayed as large icons (see below). Find ” File History (highlighted below) can click it.<\/p>\n

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Make sure your external hard drive is plugged in. Next click the button that says “Turn on”.<\/p>\n

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File history will find your external drive (mine is called Gulf (G:). See above. When it’s successfully connected and working you’ll see “File History is on” (see above next to the red arrow).<\/p>\n

Once you turn on File History, Windows will make a snap shot of your libraries and other folders. Once it has completed making this snap shot, it will keep the snap shots updated by recording the changes anytime you make changes to any of the folders monitored by File History.<\/p>\n

To restore a file from Fire History, navigate to the directory in which the file you accidentally deleted or changed and click “Home” (see below) then click on History (see below):<\/p>\n

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I turned on File History on this Windows 10 computer on Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 7:43 AM. I have not made any changes to the Pictures folder since then so the only snapshot Windows has of this folder is the one that was created on that date. \u00a0Today is August 16, 2015. \u00a0I can restore any file or folder from the snapshot by selecting any file or folder …<\/p>\n

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And clicking the green button (which we call the time machine button). See below:<\/p>\n

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Well folks…that’s the basics of File History. You can fine tune File History, add folders to it and make changes to it by clicking the start button and opening Settings. In the Settings dialog click Update & Security and select “Backup” from the menu shown on the left pane. But that’s another tip for another day.<\/p>\n

Turning File History on with its default settings should be OK for most users… and much better than not turning it on at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Windows 10 has a time machine — it’s called File History Windows 10 has a feature called File History which allows you to restore accidentally deleted, altered or corrupted files, quickly and easily. First, before you can take advantage of the Windows time machine – File History – you must turn it on. There are two ways to\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9943,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions\/9943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}