How to restore personal files in Win8 file history

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 relevant function options from the search results on the left, click “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 of "FileHistory-username-WIN8", mainly including the folder and other data storage systems. A copy of the configuration file and the original file.

Related Functions and Settings

Return to Win8“File History”Operation interface, on the left side is "Restore Personal Files", "Select Drive" ",“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 You can set which items need to be excluded when backing up files.

“Advanced Settings" The 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 save location is a network location, and how many versions are kept.

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.

Please click on “next page", let's take a look at the Win8 system's "File History" function to restore personal files.

Restore personal files

Enter the restore personal file interface, you can see the date and time of the relevant backup, followed by "number /number" means "several" Backup version & rdquo;, below 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 is provided with forward and backward button switch Backup versions of different times and a large round "Restore" button.

If there are multiple backups at different times, you can press “forward”,“backward” button selection, above "several/a total of several backup versions>; information will A corresponding change has occurred.

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.