I need to look through my notes for how I recovered File History on a Windows 8 machine that was experiencing similar problems to what you have described, because I believe there is a way to reintegrating those files.
BTW, I'm not sure I would consider File History as a full backup mechanism, but rather an ongoing file snapshot tool. If this machine on a domain or stand alone? *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market…* * GPG: *1AF3 EEC3 7C3C E88E B0EF 4319 8F28 A483 A182 EF3A On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Eric Levinson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been working with MS Premier support – which I have found to be > completely useless. They only follow their script and cannot think outside > the box. > > > > I have been experiencing the Start Menu corruption issue in Windows 10. > MS has no solution to rebuild this Start menu other than to create a new > profile. I think this happens when Windows 7 is upgraded to Windows 10 – > it seems to happen 2-3 months down the line. > > > > I decided to take a leap of faith and do a fresh install of Windows 10. > > > > Before I did this, I did a full backup using FileHistory > > > > After my system is rebuilt clean, I am trying to restore files from > FileHistory. Unfortunately it only sees files from today onwards, not the > history of files. > > > > I opened a premier support session with MS and their answer is to contact > a local support professional to help me restore the files. > > > > Wait – I am a local professional – this doesn’t make sense. > > > > To let you know what I tried: > > > > Start File History > > Select the drive where the files are > > It does see my backup, I click on it. > > It only allows me to navigate back to Dec 3. None of my old files are > accessible. > > > > The folder is taking up 127GB, what is expected. I can browse the actual > drive and see all the files there, however they have the obnoxious > (2015_10_03 23_00_14 UTC) date prefixes after them. > > > > Anyone have any troubleshooting steps or tricks for helping me get back to > my older files? > > > > If I can’t use Filehistory, is there another tool which will mass strip > off the timestamps in the filenames so I can do a restore of certain files > manually? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > > > Eric > > > > > > >
