What's up guys?
It is Bernardo from the BTNHD and yes, welcome to another awesome tech tip Tuesdays and it's
all about recovering deleted files.
So let's get started.
Okay, so on the desktop, I'm going to right click on my start menu, click on Run, type
in WINVER hit OK.
And I'm running everything within a Windows 10 build 19569 the build doesn't really matter
because you are able to do this within Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
Okay, so number one in my list.
Now this order is not in any specific order.
So bear with me, right?
So number one is a super easy one, but you have to do this right away.
All right, so let's say if I have a file within the folder and I delete it, if you want to
bring that file quickly do it CTRL + Z Yes, CTRL + Z as in zebra.
That will undo it and bring it back to its original location.
Got to do it right away.
Got it.
Number two on my list. is another super simple one.
So let's say I have this file within this folder, which is going to be used throughout
the entire video except the the last one.
And let's say I select it, and by accident, I delete it.
Oh freaking out, don't worry about it, that file actually went inside the recycling bin.
Every operating system, especially on Windows has a recycling bin.
So double click on that recycling bin, and you're going to see all your files that you
deleted in there.
Now the cool thing is that pay attention to the columns, you're able to sort your deleted
items as date created or original location.
Now if you know where the file was that you are able to sort it as original location,
or if you know the name of it, that's even easier.
For this example, only have one item within the recycling bin.
So that's pretty easy.
Now at the top of the toolbar, you have an option that says Recycle Bin tools.
So click on it, you're going to have a bunch of items, select the item that you want to
recover and then just pick restore the selected item.
It's going to all Automatically restore is going to disappear.
But it's going to drop it inside their original location of where the file was located.
Now, within your recycling bin, if you don't want to drop it where it originally was at,
you are able to copy and paste it into another location or drag it and drop it into the desktop.
Right And there goes, popped up number three on my list is a pretty cool one.
And if you don't have it configured, I'm going to show you guys how to configure it on this
video.
Got it.
So number three is pretty simple.
So I delete something ahhh freaking out right, you're not able to do a CTRL + Z.
So what the hell you're going to do?
Pretty simple.
Hopefully you guys have this configured, if you right click on the folder where that file
was located, you go to properties and within properties, you're going to see a tab called
previous versions for me and this example, I didn't have any snapshots, which kind of
sucks but I'm going to show you guys how to configure it.
So if you click on your start menu, and you start typing Restore Your you're going to
get an option that says restore your files with File History, we're going to click on
that you're going to get a hyperlink that says configure File History settings.
When you click on it, it should take you to something like this.
Now, you're probably saying to yourself, wait a minute, Bernardo, you're using a different
machine?
Yes.
Good eye.
And the reason why I'm using another machine is because the original machine that I started
on this video wasn't able to do File History kind of sucks.
So I had to find a machine that was able to do it so I can show you guys how to configure
it.
So you're going to get this your file history is going to scan your machine to make sure
it has a hard drive.
So it could create the File History stuff for you.
So super simple.
Click on turn on, it's going to start turning on and it's going to start doing this first
snapshot throughout your entire system.
Once it's done, you're good to go.
Now on the desktop, I created a folder called BTNHD.
And inside that folder, I created a lot of text files.
And for this example, I'm going to show you guys How the File History works.
So I'm going to go back here.
And the reason why I'm going back here is because I want to manually run the file history,
I want to create a snapshot because I just created a folder on a desktop.
I don't want to wait, the timeframe that Microsoft has, I believe it's every hour, or every three
or four hours before it takes a snapshot.
But you are able to run it manually.
So let's click on run now, it's going to start doing this thing, and it's done.
So we're going to go inside BTNHD, right?
We're going to right click on it, go to properties, and then go to previous versions, and you're
going to see your snapshot.
Cool.
Let's go back inside that folder.
Let's select all those text files and let's just delete them.
Ahhhh, where are they?
That's right click on that folder, go to properties.
Go to previous versions, select your snapshot.
You're going to see a button that says open at the very bottom right open and restore.
We're going to click on the little arrow right next to open and we're going Pick open and
File History, it's going to open up this nice little GUI.
Now if you have multiple snapshots, you are able to go back in time and pick a particular
file that you modified two or three days ago that you want to restore.
Let's say you overwritten something today, and you want the original one that you did
two days ago, you're able to restore two days ago, but this example I'm going to select
all of them and hit that big green button to restore it is going to start copying all
those files were originally was located.
And then bam, that's it.
Now I'm going to give you a quick tip, free one number four, and that's all about backing
up your system.
Got to backup your system.
If File History is not configured, CTRL + Z didn't work out for you recycling bin the
file is not there.
You got to have some type of client like CrashPlan or backblaze.
That's the one that I'm using.
I'm not advertising them at all.
But that's what I use and I'm super happy.
They're super cheap.
If you have a client that backing up your files in the background, you don't have to
worry about it and you're able to go online on the cloud service login, restore file from
whatever backup that you have.
You're good to go.
Number four super simple.
It's just going to cost you you know, a couple bucks is to find some type of vendor CrashPlan
or backblaze or whatever Dropbox and backup your stuff in the cloud, right?
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Peace out!