If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.

File History is a feature in Windows 11/10 that saves copies of your files so that you can get them back if they are lost or damaged. If you want to enable Previous Versions, you have to enable File ...

That sinking feeling when you realize you saved over a version of a file you need or unwittingly lost some vital information in a recent document revision is all too familiar to many. In the past, ...

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Regularly backing up your Mac with Time Machine can prevent data loss and allow you to restore earlier versions of files. To ...

What happens if you’re working on a document and you realize you screwed it up? Maybe you deleted a few paragraphs without realizing. Or you’ve just been writing a bunch of nonsense for the past ...

The discontinuation of CrashPlan for Home on 22 October 2018 is coming soon (see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), so I’ve been receiving questions about how best to restore ...