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You know what's even more awesome? Select the desktop and press Ctrl+Z. The last thing you did in Explorer gets undone. Even if it was copying a 100GB file from a network share drive onto your local hard drive. Even if that was weeks ago. It's fantastic.
It should be noted that files can often be recovered if you notice soon after accidentally deleting them. You need a file recovery tool that understands your file format (Recuva is a pretty good free tool) but you can save yourself hours of work if you act quickly. These tools rely on the fact that Windows (and most other operating systems) don't zero out the filesystem when deleting files. This means that the file c…
Jetbrains IDEs have a "Local history" feature that is not well known. It watches local files and keeps a backup of previous versions of a file, independently from version control. This has saved me from a few accidental unrecoverable changes. git reflog is also your friend.
And Vim will also let you go back to any prior state as long as you still have the file open. You can go back to a specific date/time, revert the last 5 minutes etc.
"Undo copy" seems like it should not even exist. Delete does the same. Seems like the result of trying to hard to "improve" the UI.
A similar annoyance is the fact that excel's undo applies to all open excel files. Make a change in a.xls, make a change in b.xls. if you ctrl-z twice with b.xls focused, it'll undo both of the above changes! This has bitten me more than once. Does anyone actually want this behavior?
I haven't used Excel much in the past decades but I'm surprised to see the undo behaviour remaining unchanged. Next time you tell me 1904 date formatting is still a thing...
You know what's even more awesome? Select the desktop and press Ctrl+Z. The last thing you did in Explorer gets undone. Even if it was copying a 100GB file from a network share drive onto your local hard drive. Even if that was weeks ago. It's fantastic.
Does it at least show a confirmation prompt?
I treat every file that's important to me the same when I have to edit it, I hit save first, then edit what needs attention. After making any change more then a few minutes of work, hit save. Undo is always the last option. I am a terribly slow typist, so this is a habit I formed many years ago.
"Undo copy" seems like it should not even exist. Delete does the same. Seems like the result of trying to hard to "improve" the UI.