{"id":8654,"date":"2018-03-16T20:08:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T20:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.helpline.w3.uvm.edu\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=8654"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:31:48","slug":"using-the-previous-versions-tab-to-recover-files","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/article\/using-the-previous-versions-tab-to-recover-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Previous Versions tab to recover files"},"content":{"rendered":"    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--info  hts-messages--withtitle hts-messages--withicon \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t<span class=\"hts-messages__title\">Requires a UVM-owned Windows computer<\/span>    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tYou must use a <strong>CAMPUS domain-joined<\/strong> Windows system to restore previous versions. This functionality is not available for macOS machines or personal Windows machines.    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t\n<p>The file servers for Shared (S:) folders and Netfiles shares take several snapshots of their contents each day. You can access these snapshots and revert to them through the Previous Versions tab in the Properties window for a file or folder. These snapshots are kept for a couple of weeks, so if you notice missing or corrupted files in that time frame, you can sometimes recover them with this feature.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Right-click<\/strong> the\u00a0damaged file or the folder that contained\u00a0a deleted file. From the menu that appears, select\u00a0<strong>Properties<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.helpline.w3.uvm.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7753 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.helpline.w3.uvm.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.png 852w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1-768x367.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>From the window that appears, select the\u00a0<strong>Previous Versions<\/strong> tab.<\/li>\n<li>Select the version of the folder that would have contained the deleted file. For example, if the file was deleted this morning, select the snapshot from last night (very early this morning).<\/li>\n<li>Click the\u00a0<strong>Open<\/strong> button to open a version of the folder as it existed at that time. Avoid the\u00a0Restore button, which will overwrite your current folder with the folder as it existed at the selected time.<\/li>\n<li>Find the deleted file in the read-only window (identified by the time stamp in the window title) and copy it to the desired location.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.helpline.w3.uvm.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2.png\" rel=\"lightbox-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7752 \" src=\"https:\/\/projects.helpline.w3.uvm.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2.png 983w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2-768x370.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/a>The selected file should now be restored.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The file servers for Shared (S:) folders and Netfiles shares take several snapshots of their contents each day. You can access these snapshots and revert to them through the Previous Versions tab in the Properties window for a file or folder. These snapshots are kept for a couple of weeks,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[275],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-8654","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-backup-and-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/8654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/8654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31284,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/8654\/revisions\/31284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}