Today we bring a very useful little tutorial on how we can access a certain version of a document that we are editing on our mac and we want to return to a previous state.
When you make changes to a document (word, excel, etc, ...) and the file is saved automatically or on your own initiative, and later you realize that you have deleted or edited something that you should not, How many times have you wanted to go back in the past, to delete all the changes made and leave the file as it was before? On your mac it is possible and here we explain how:
It is important to know first of all what this feature of the application you use, since it is a function that must be active in the program you are using. For example, Pages, Numbers, Keynote or iBook have this option built in. On the contrary, it is something that the Windows Office suite does not offer. One more reason to use native Apple apps!
What this function basically performs is to explore in an interface similar to Time Machine, traveling in time to be able to search and retrieve a previous version of the document in question. Let's see step by step how we should operate to recover previous versions of your documents:
- Within the program used, in the menu bar we enter Archive.
- If said application has this option enabled, the option will appear Back to -> Browse all versions ...
- There, it will load all the existing versions, organized by date, and we only need to choose the desired one.
These documents saved in parallel automatically are saved in the hidden directory called:
/.DocumentRevisions-V100/,
on the first level of the hard drive. This directory is dynamically emptied relatively frequently, and its size depends on the number of documents you are working with.
If you need delete the contents of the folderYou can do it without major problem, but you must bear in mind that you will delete all the information of all the applications that use this feature.
We hope this tip has been useful to you and that in this way you can recover documents that you had already given for lost.