Saturday, January 25, 2014

Retrieving Previous Version of File from Windows Recycle Bin

Today, when I went in search of a previous version of a file that I had just sent to the Recycle Bin, I noticed that the context menu has a Cut option. Since I had already reused the file name in the directory from which I deleted the other version, I decided to see what happened when I cut the file.

Much to my delight, I was able to paste the file into a different directory. This feat enabled me to preserve the good copy that I had just assigned, while allowing me to temporarily restore the discarded file, so that I could retrieve a snippet of text from it.

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