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Figure 10:
Go “back in time” to a previous version of your data.
3. To locate the file or folder you want, do one of the following:
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Near the bottom right corner of the screen, click the back arrow
(the one pointing toward the center of the screen, or backward
in time). Time Machine zooms back to the most recent backup
in which that window's contents were different. Keep clicking
to continue zooming back through previous versions of that
window; click the forward arrow to move forward in time.
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Use the controls along the right edge of the screen to jump to
a particular backup. As you hover your pointer over the small
horizontal lines, they zoom in to display the date and (for recent
backups) time of the corresponding backup. Click any of these
lines to jump right to that version of the window. (If you've only
just set up Time Machine, you won't see many dates here.) As
you zoom backward or forward in time, the date and time of the
backup you're currently viewing is shown at the bottom of the
screen in the middle.
4. If you're unsure whether a file is the one you want, click once to
select it and press the Space bar to activate Quick Look, which gives
you a live, full-size preview of the file. To close the Quick Look
window, click the X
icon in the upper left corner.
