Overview
Instructions to restore a deleted file or folder from your career account home directory or network drive.
Instructions
To restore a deleted file or folder
- Open your career account home directory drive
- Navigate to the folder that used to contain the file or folder you wish to restore
- Right-click this folder, then click Restore previous versions
- If the folder was at the top-level of your home directory, right-click the home directory drive, then click Restore previous versions
- You'll see a list of available previous versions of the file or folder
- Double-click a previous version of the folder that contains the file or folder you wish to restore (Example: if a file was deleted today, chose a version of the folder from yesterday, which should contain the file)
- Drag the file or folder you wish to restore to another location, like your desktop, or a different folder
- The restored file is now available to inspect
NOTE: If you don't remember the exact file or folder name, or its location, you can search for it by typing part of its name in the search box.
To restore a file or folder to a previous state:
- Open your career account home directory drive
- Navigate to the folder that used to contain the file or folder you wish to restore
- Right-click this folder, then click Restore previous versions
- You'll see a list of available previous versions of the file or folder
- Before restoring one of these versions, select the previous version, then click Open to view and make sure it's the version you'd like to restore
- To restore a previous version, select the previous version, then click Restore
NOTE: The file or folder replaces the current version in your home directory, and the replacement can't be undone.
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