Win8 Time Machine Easily restore personal files

】 Windows 8 system has added the "File History" function, which can back up files located in the library, contacts, favorites, SkyDrive and desktop. With this feature, if the original files in these locations in the system are lost, damaged or deleted, we can easily restore and restore them. Let's take a look at the specific functions and operations of the file history in the Windows 8 system.

Press “Win + W”, we can directly enter the Win8 system's "Settings" search, enter "ldquo; file history" in the search box, You can see the related function options from the search results on the left, click on “File History” to enter the corresponding function interface.

You can also open the Win8 control panel and select “System and Security—File History”, you will see the corresponding function interface. This function requires an external drive or network location. If the current Win8 device is not connected to an external drive, the Win8 system will give a prompt: "We recommend using an external drive for file history. Connect a drive and refresh this page, or use a network location”.

Save File History

After inserting an external storage device such as a USB flash drive, click the “Refresh” button.

Now the Win8 system's "File History" screen will display the connected U disk. Click the “Enable” button, the file history function will be enabled, the status of the corresponding disk will change to “ the file history function is saving a copy of your file for the first time & rdquo;, and the <;file copy source" And information such as the available capacity of the target drive.

Open the U disk for saving “file history”, you can see the backup file under the path "FileHistory-username-WIN8” There are mainly configuration files such as Configuration and Data to save the system's configuration files and original file copies.

Related Functions and Settings

Back to Win8“File History”Operation interface, on the left side is "Restore Personal Files", "Select Drives” , "exclude folders" and <; advanced settings" and other rich feature title links, click on different title links to enter different functions and settings interface.

Go to the "Select Drive" screen to display all available drives, change which drive to use, or “Add Network Location”. And here you can also choose which users' files to back up. “exclude folders> can set which items need to be excluded when backing up files. The “Advanced Settings” interface contains a number of detailed setup options, such as the time interval for automatically saving a copy of a file, the size of the offline cache when the location is saved to a network location, and the number of saved versions. The most important thing is of course, "restore personal files", after saving the file history, we can click the title option to easily restore the relevant file status at the specified time.

Restore personal files

Enter the restore personal file interface, you can see the date and time of the relevant backup, followed by "numbers /numbers" ” indicates "several/a total of several backup versions", the following will show which files are in the current backup version, these folders can be opened and viewed, you can also select some folders to restore The bottom end is provided with forward and backward buttons to switch backup versions at different times and a large round "Restore" button.

If there are multiple backups at different times, you can press “forward”,“backward” button selection, above <; The backup version & rdquo; information will change accordingly.

Click the green  Restore" button to enter the file history recovery process.

A file with the same name will have a replacement or skip action selection prompt.

Wait a moment for the Win8 system to complete the personal files of the selected time points and related objects that the user has previously saved. With the "File History" function, if the original files on the Win8 system in the library, contacts, favorites, SkyDrive and desktop are lost, damaged or deleted, we can easily restore and restore them.