Keeply 1.0.13 adds a deletion time machine to recover files you deleted by accident, per-file version history, a redesigned file explorer, Intel Mac support, plus a sneak peek at team collaboration.
`(conflicted copy)` isn't a bug — it's the result of Dropbox saving the later writer's version on top of the earlier one with no conflict-detection layer. This article unpacks 4 scenarios that trigger it, plus 3 sync designs that actually fix the mechanism.
Excel's version-history button is grayed out and only goes back 1-2 versions — not a bug, but the result of Microsoft designing AutoSave as OneDrive subscription bait. This article unpacks 4 limits you can't get around, plus 3 tool designs that close the gap.
Word AutoRecover, OneDrive version history, and Time Machine are all save-layer rescue tools — retention runs from cleared-on-close to a few hundred versions. Recovering the deliverable you sent 3 months ago needs a tool-layer always-on version history plus delivery-time metadata.
Windows ships three separate features people call "backup" — File History, Windows Backup, and version history in cloud sync. They solve three different problems. Confusing them is why you have one of them covered and feel safe when you're missing the other two.
Excel's Recover Unsaved Workbooks pulls a never-saved file out of a hidden UnsavedFiles cache, a temporary .xlsb that Excel clears on its own. That's why a file you rescued can be gone days later, and what to keep instead.
Saved over a file? Whether you can recover it depends on where it lived: cloud and backed-up files restore in seconds; a local SSD file with no backup is usually gone for good. Here's how to tell.
Keeply 1.0.12 highlights: open any folder from the right-click menu, a fully reworked team invite flow from code to join, Ctrl+S quick save, plus a round of security and bug fixes.
You closed Word without saving and Document Recovery opened empty. That's not a bug. That's AutoRecover working as designed. AutoRecover is a crash buffer, not version history. Five cases it was never built to save, and what to do instead.
5 reasons a deleted file isn't in the Recycle Bin — Shift+Delete, capacity overflow, network drives, OneDrive sync, retention expiry. 4 recovery methods, and the 'never lose it in the first place' design alternative.