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Shadow Copy - “previous versions” of the same file

Shadow Copy, also known as Previous Versions, is a technology which enables you to look back over the history of a file. Say you’re working on an important Word document called statistics.docx and you’ve just accidentally deleted everything in the file, saved it and the whole thing crashes. Don’t panic!

With Shadow Copy, it keeps track of what’s changed throughout your document’s history and lets you retrieve any copy of the file that’s been saved previously. Simply right click a file, and select Restore previous versions and select the copy of the file you want to restore - it’s as simple as that.

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