File History isn't my main means of backup but it's sure nice to have, as I'm not backup every little file every day and rather do it in chunks after some months, and being able to check if one files got delete by mistake simply by right clicking on the folder helps a lot.
In windows 7/8 days, a system restore would've create folder history for all of your folders iirc,
Since win10/11 MS changed it so we will have File History instead which is more limited as well as broken by our beloved MS to this day,
How it's more limited? not just that it backup stuff from the user folder only and completely ignores my other drives,
it also not let me have the option to backup stuff only manually, which means it will always at least backup my stuff after a day at most or every 10 mins at the least when it's Enabled (you can tell it to start it manually but you can't turn it off from doing it automatically in other words which will eat away your drive space).
How is it broken? after some MS update from 2023 we now can't use its clean-up option to clean the files from it and instead got an error (even the FhManagew command not seems to help at this point).
So I have 3 questions here:
1. Is there any way to make it backup stuff only manually by changing something in its plan or the reg so I won't need to be limited by MS's automatic backup plans which are forced on the user and eat the drive space?
2. Is there a way to also include other drives to backup (I mean to backup the files that are in them, not to make File History to place its backups in them) like in win7/8 days?
(If you know of any tool that specifically replace File History and does a better job, please let me know)
3. Is there a way to remove my file history at all?
Right now any clean-up option is completely broken, the clean-up button as well as the FhManagew CMD command will give me "element not found" error and even after resetting the thing it still the case and seem to be global, so I'm not the only one who got it.
Using the tool as is will simply kill my drive little by little, any help to solve it will be appreciated
In windows 7/8 days, a system restore would've create folder history for all of your folders iirc,
Since win10/11 MS changed it so we will have File History instead which is more limited as well as broken by our beloved MS to this day,
How it's more limited? not just that it backup stuff from the user folder only and completely ignores my other drives,
it also not let me have the option to backup stuff only manually, which means it will always at least backup my stuff after a day at most or every 10 mins at the least when it's Enabled (you can tell it to start it manually but you can't turn it off from doing it automatically in other words which will eat away your drive space).
How is it broken? after some MS update from 2023 we now can't use its clean-up option to clean the files from it and instead got an error (even the FhManagew command not seems to help at this point).
So I have 3 questions here:
1. Is there any way to make it backup stuff only manually by changing something in its plan or the reg so I won't need to be limited by MS's automatic backup plans which are forced on the user and eat the drive space?
2. Is there a way to also include other drives to backup (I mean to backup the files that are in them, not to make File History to place its backups in them) like in win7/8 days?
(If you know of any tool that specifically replace File History and does a better job, please let me know)
3. Is there a way to remove my file history at all?
Right now any clean-up option is completely broken, the clean-up button as well as the FhManagew CMD command will give me "element not found" error and even after resetting the thing it still the case and seem to be global, so I'm not the only one who got it.
Using the tool as is will simply kill my drive little by little, any help to solve it will be appreciated
- Windows Build/Version
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