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In the window shown in Figure 16-6, double-click folders as usual, looking

for the file in its usual place.

If it’s been deleted, of course, you won’t find it—at least, not in today’s
listing. But if you click the button, the entire window slides to the right;
you’re viewing endlessly scrolling versions of the current window, going

back in time.

If you scroll back far enough this way, you’ll eventually see the missing file
reappear. You’ve rewound time to a point before it went missing.

Scrolling back in time is also useful when you want to find an earlier
version, or draft, of a document. And how will you know which version
you’re looking at? Because you can double-click an icon to open it, right

within this window (Figure 16-6, bottom). You can keep clicking the
button even when the document is open, so you can watch its contents
change in real (backward) time.

Once you’ve found the file in question, click the big green Restore button.
Magically enough, the lost or outdated file or folder is brought back from
the dead.

File History prides itself not just on recovering files and folders, but also on
putting them back where they came from.