File version history

Go back to an earlier state of a file: when Filarr keeps a version, how to compare two versions line by line, restore one or export it.

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Filarr keeps earlier states of your files. If you overwrite a list, a script or a text by mistake, you can compare it with a previous version and bring that version back.

This article is about files. Notes have their own history, see Version history and export.

When Filarr keeps a version

Filarr saves a version of a file:

  • when you import it ("Initial version");
  • before each save in a built-in editor ("Before edit"), see Edit files inside Filarr;
  • when you open it in an application of your computer ("File opened");
  • when you click New version ("Manual version");
  • before it restores an older version ("State before restoring version 2", for example).

If the content has not changed since the last version, Filarr does not add a new one.

Open the history

Right-click the file, then choose View version history. The Version History panel lists the versions, the newest first, with their size, their origin and their age.

Each version has buttons:

  • Changes compares it with the previous version;
  • A and B mark two versions to compare;
  • the arrow in a circle restores this version;
  • the download arrow exports it;
  • the bin deletes it.

New version, at the top, saves the current state as a restore point, before a big change for example.

Compare two versions

  1. Click A on the first version.
  2. Click B on the second one.

The Version comparison appears under the list, with the number of lines added and removed. Added lines are green, removed lines are red.

Clear selection starts over. The line-by-line comparison works for text files. For other files, Filarr only tells you whether the two versions differ.

Restore a version

  1. Click the restore button (the arrow in a circle) on the version you want.
  2. Confirm.

Filarr first saves the current state as a new version, then puts the old one back. You lose nothing: if you change your mind, restore the version it saved first.

A file in the trash must be restored first, before its versions: see Trash and restore.

Export a version

Click the export button (the download arrow) on a version to save it as a separate file on your computer. The file in Filarr does not change.

Limits

  • Filarr keeps the 10 most recent versions of each file. Older ones go away.
  • For a file over 25 MB, the list shows the version, but Filarr does not keep its content: it cannot be restored or exported.
  • All the versions of one file take 150 MB at most.
  • Folders have no version history.