What's up guys, it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and welcome to an awesome Tech Tip Tuesday
and it's all about locating your lost file. So have you ever lost or thought that you
lost a file within Word or Excel or PowerPoint, I'm going to show you guys some quick tips
on how to locate a lost file because most likely it's not lost. So let's get started.
Let's say we have a Word document which I have one open right now if we click on File,
and we go to open, within Microsoft Word, they have a section that says recent. This
will give you a nice little bird's eye view of what you have done so far. Like I have
a lot of stuff that I was working on yesterday, a couple of days ago. And if I'm locating
a particular file, let's say Tuesday, it tells me it's located inside the desktop within
a folder called BTNHD. Now within one of these locations here, you could click on it, it
will open it up for you or you are actually able to right click on one of them and it
gives you more options. To open, open a copy, copy the path and so on and so on. Now within
this section you also have an additional section which is called folders and this will give
you like a location of recent folders that you've been dropping your files into. Now
also within the Word document, you are able to go inside file and within file go to save
as now within Save As you're able to go to this PC. And again, it will give you a nice
little view of where you've been dropping your files when you are saving them. Like
right here. My current folder that I've been dropping a lot of files is within desktop
in a folder called BTNHD. Now you also able to open up the file explorer, and within the
file explorer if you go to quick access. It has a section that says recent files and it
will give you like a list of all the files that you have access within Windows 10. And
also right next to it if you look at it, it gives you the path of where those files are
located. Now another cool thing is within file explore you're able to search. So you
are able to just click on the little section as located at the upper right corner that
say search this PC. When you click on it, the entire tab changes and it gives you more
options to do date modify and all subfolders and you have a like a crap-load of stuff to
do within search. Now I'm going to start searching for only the first two letters of the file
that I want, which would be "t u", you're going to see like a nice little progress bar,
kind of searching your entire machine once it finds anything and gives you a list of
whatever letters or whatever word you provided within the search box. From here, you're able
to select the file that you want, right click on it, you are able to open it or open the
file location and it will open up the folder where that particular file is located. Now
another good example is if you have File History or previous versions enabled within your system,
I'll show you guys how to do that on the last Tech Tip Tuesday. So let's say I have this
file tight here and I delete Tuesday, it's gone. If you right click on that folder, you
go to properties. And within properties, you go to see previous versions, and you should
see snapshots and you don't see snapshots, make sure that you do configure your machine
to do File History. So I'm going to select today's snapshot, I'm going to click on the
little drop down menu and go open in File History and it gives me this nice little interface
to locate my file. So I'm going to select my file, click on that green button and bam,
your file is back. Now another simple option is if you can't locate it, most likely you
deleted it by mistake. So open up that recycling bin, modify or sorts your recycling bin to
name or Date Modified or date deleted and locate that file. Once you locate your file,
just select it and click on that button that says restore the selected item and then we're
bringing it back to its original location. That's it guys. Hopefully this helps you out
or how Find a lost file within your system. Half the time I'm constantly using the search
feature because that actually searches the entire machine. It takes some time but just
be patient and hopefully you will find your file. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video.
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