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Where does Windows 11 store File History
I had File History running in Windows for a while, probably staring under WIndows 10. I could go the the drive where History was stored and browse through the versions of files there with File Explorer. I recently discovered, to my horror, that File History was NOT running on my machine. I started it up, and it is now running. However when I go to the drive where the files are to be copied, I can''t find them. I find old ones from last year, with the date & time added to each version, but nothing new. When I use the built in restore feature I can see a few recent versions of a file that is updated every weekday. But I can NOT find anything using File Explorer. Google has let me down, Microsoft Help has let me down. I have found nothing about WHERE the files are stored.
(I'm no Windows expert but I've been using it since the Windows NT days, when I was a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. I'm long retired, but not a complete newby.)