Restoring from Backup

karenfaz · Post by **karenfaz** » 21 Oct 2006 14:28

My computer recently crashed so I've started again on a laptop. I've reloaded FH and have got it to re-open the Gedcom file I had but I can't get it to restore the latest backup file I had. When I double click the icon the folder looks empty but I don't know if I'm actually doing it right in the first place. I can't seem to find instructions in the manual.
I'm running Windows XP Home.
Can someone give me a step by step guide to what I'm supposed to do so I can make sure I'm trying to do it right first? I'm confused. [confused]

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 21 Oct 2006 18:17

Try using the Restore option on the File Menu of FH.

karenfaz · Post by **karenfaz** » 25 Oct 2006 20:11

Thanks Jane.

I knew I wa just being thick, I just couldn't work out why.

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 25 Oct 2006 20:46

Don't worry you are not the first to be caught out.

Nick Walker has started an excellent article on the Wiki about backup and recovery

RalfofAmber · Post by **RalfofAmber** » 26 Feb 2007 07:56

Having been burnt by this yesterday (did a merge wrong, broke an evening's records, decided to restore and tried opening the ZIP file under XP instead of from Family Historian. It was empty which led to a surge of blind panic and immediate backups to everything I could find.

I have added something to the wiki entry to stress that any empty ZIP files are nothing of the sort - why didn't I look here first!

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