Day 3.5

[buzzy]

Just something random that popped into my head: I just thought about how Windows 8 removes the Previous Versions feature. In the past 24 hours, I've used it twice. The first time was from using CCleaner to clean up my hard drive and I didn't realize it cleared my Winamp playlist. Previous versions had several past versions to choose from and I got my playlist back. (I could re-add everything, but I had everything in a specific order and waiting for it to load the information would take a long time.) The second time was when I started clearing out my history in Firefox. I selectively clear out things, leaving things that I want to re-visit, but don't think are worth bookmarking. As I cleared things out using the keyboard, my finger slipped when hitting the Delete key, so I hit End prior to hitting Delete, causing the wrong thing to be removed. That happened to be all the YouTube channels I follow. (I could just create a user name and subscribe to those channels, but I don't like giving Google any more information about myself than I have to.) Previous versions came to the rescue with a snapshot taken a few hours before. The guts for Previous Versions (the Volume Shadow Copy service) are preserved, but they don't work. The same service also gets used by the Backup and Restore feature, which is supposed to be present somewhere, but I haven't found it. Maybe I'll find it in my Consumer Preview installation at some point.