Tips and Tricks

1. Restore using Windows Explorer

   We highly recommend that when you need to restore a file, you go through Windows Explorer and manually copy the file over, rather than using the 'restore' functionality of Automatic USB Backup. In our experience, users mainly want to restore a single file or directory, and when they restore the WHOLE archive they inadvertently overwrite a file they did not mean to. Instead, locate your USB drive in Windows Explorer, open the \BackupUSBArchive\, and navigate the subdirectories to the file or directory you want restored. Take a look at the files there, making sure they're the versions you want to use. Then manually copy them over to their original locations on your hard drive after you're 100% these are the files you want to revert to.