Thanks to SkyDrive Version History

Should you be stupid/unlucky enough to overwrite a file you have stored on SkyDrive you might like to know that you can bring back previous versions of your files by opening Version History. Open your folder in the browser via https://skydrive.live.com/ and right click the file name.

Select Version History from the menu that appears and then travel back in time to get the file that you want.  This saved my bacon tonight.

Comments

[James Croft]

I did this the other day. Something had gone wrong when I saved a Word doc to SkyDrive and when I went to download and print it, it wasn't the right version.

Apparently it had been overwritten with the unfinished version so I managed to recover it :)

[John T]

I don't have "Version History" in the right-click menu which was a bit disappointing when I overwrote a file... There's no menu option between CopyTo and Properties.

Documents were created/saved to SkyDrive on a Windows 7 PC in Visio2013(Trial). I now have the local SkyDrive application installed and very regular backups to help with getting access to previous versions of files but SkyDrive should do the versioning for me. Does version history only work with Office2013 (ie. Word & Excel)?

Does anyone know why I can't use version history on a basic SkyDrive account with Visio2013?

[Rob]

Hmmm. As far as I know the versioning is part of Skydrive.

But remember that you do all this in the Web Browser view of the files on skydrive.com, not in the local folder on the machine.