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Figure 16-6. Top: This is where you can rewind time.

Locate the missing file by drilling down to the spot where the file used to live.

Move backward and forward in time by clicking the arrow buttons at the bottom of the window. The
date and time of each snapshot is identified above the window. If you scroll back far enough, the
missing file reappears. Click the Restore button, shown here by the cursor.

Bottom: Double-click any icon to open it, right there in the window. Now you can tell whether this
document is the latest version—or the earlier one that you were actually proud of before your editing
made things go horribly wrong.

Tip

You can also tell File History to put the file or folder into a new location. To do that, right-click its
icon; from the shortcut menu, choose “Restore to,” and then choose the new folder location.

If you recover a different version of something that’s still there, Windows
asks if you want to replace it with the recovered version—or if you’d rather

keep both versions.

Ribbon rewinding

You don’t actually have to bother with the Control Panel when you want to

restore a file. There’s a History button on the Ribbon’s Home tab in every
File Explorer window.

In other words, you can start the recovery process by opening the folder that

contains (or used to contain) the file you want. Or find the icon of the file
you want to rewind. In either case, click that History button. You wind up in
exactly the same spot illustrated in Figure 16-6; the recovery process is the

same.

Searching for the file

Once you’ve opened the window shown in Figure 16-6, here’s another way
to find the missing or changed file: Type into the search box at the top of

the window. That’s handy if you can’t remember what folder it was in. See
Figure 16-7.