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Restoring files from a backup

Restoring files from a backup

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Restoring files from a backup

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- [Instructor] You backup diligently and are thankful for that one day when you must restore a file or folder. Here's how it works. Press the Windows + R keyboard shortcut to summon the Settings app. Choose Update and Security, Backup, More options. Now scroll way down to the bottom of the list and choose Restore files from a current backup. But before I do that, I'm going to show you the shortcut, now that you've been through all these steps, so that you'll appreciate how efficient it is. Press the Windows and R keyboard shortcut, and into the Open box type filehistory , all one word. Click OK. Your job here is to locate the file or folder you want to restore. But this is more than just a File Browser. You use these buttons down here to peruse files by date. So I'm going to go back in time and look at older versions that were backed up on this system. Now you can browse a folder to look for a specific file that…

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