{"id":3491,"date":"2016-07-12T21:38:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:54:33","slug":"previousfilesrecovery-search-recover-files-shadow-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/previousfilesrecovery-search-recover-files-shadow-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"[PreviousFilesRecovery] Search and Recover Files from Shadow Copy Easily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/previous-files-recovery-1.png\" alt=\"previousfilesrecovery\" width=\"650\" height=\"555\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3493\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PreviousFilesRecovery is another new tool to recover files from volume shadow copy snapshots. This is a similar one like the previous shadow copy recovery tool (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/shadowcopyview-recover-files-volume-shadow-snapshot\/\">ShadowCopyView<\/a>) released last month by Nirsoft.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Using PreviousFilesRecovery you can search for specific file names (wildcards supported) in a particular directory, and recover the appropriate version of the file you need.<\/p>\n<p>Type the base folder path, set the sub-folders depth (recursion level), configure which files to find, and click <b>Start<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h2>What each option means?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Previous versions of existing files:<\/b> This item type means that an older version of existing file was found in a shadow copy.<\/li>\n<li><b>Deleted File:<\/b> This item type means that a file that doesn&#8217;t exist in your drive was found in a shadow copy (Probably because the file was deleted)<\/li>\n<li><b>Deleted Folder:<\/b> This item type means that a folder that doesn&#8217;t exist in your drive was found in a shadow copy (Probably because the folder was deleted) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nirsoft.net\/utils\/previous_files_recovery.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PreviousFilesRecovery<\/a> from NirSoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PreviousFilesRecovery is another new tool to recover files from volume shadow copy snapshots. This is a similar one like the previous shadow copy recovery tool (ShadowCopyView) released last month by Nirsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utilities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3806,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/restore-deleted-systemapps-windowsapps-packages\/","url_meta":{"origin":3491,"position":0},"title":"Accidentally Deleted SystemApps, WindowsApps or Local Packages. 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