Even professionals make mistakes
Yep, you guessed it, I made a bit of a mistake earlier today, and I thought I would share my experience with you.
I was making a new avatar for a social site, and I was chatting with a friend of mine on skype. So there was mistake number 1, I should have been focusing on what I was doing at the time.
While editing the image to make it smaller, I mistakenly clicked on the save button and not the save as button. Now, my large nice image has been replaced by a much smaller one. This is where I start swearing at my computer right?
Wrong. Why? because I use Windows 7. Windows 7 and Vista have a built in feature called shadow copy. This allows you to restore files from a previous version. In order to restore the file all I need to do is follow these steps.
Right click on the file and choose properties. A dialog box like this will pop up:
Choose the Previous Versions tab
Now I can select the old version that I want to restore from. Simply choose the file that you want, and hit Restore
Those of you that are paying attention will notice that the old version is from Feburary. Yes, that’s a little old, but in this case its fine. The reason that this file is so old is because the shadow copies are only created during a system restore point. By default this option is turned on, but you can manually invoke it so you have more backups of your data.
I will teach you how to setup this option in my next posting.
So remember, that even the professionals make mistakes. The difference is that we know how to recover from them.
