Using the Undo Command in Microsoft Windows

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Ross. Thanks for visiting expertvillage.com. What can we do with computer files? Let’s find out. Let’s talk about the undo command. For instance, if you copied a file or you moved a file, and you want it to move it back where it was, you could use the undo command. For instance, in here under creativity I have a file that I have moved in called my wonderful life. That wasn’t the folder I meant it to be in. I just moved this file in here, so I could simply go up to edit, undo move, and since I know I just moved that file as the last action, I know it’s referring to that one. You can also use control Z as the undo command. I can do control Z from the keyboard. That file just disappeared from this folder and reappeared back in the route of that folder where it was originally. That’s using the undo command. If you do it with a copy, for instance if I say copy here, and go into creativity and paste it in, you can see it says undo copy, where last time it said undo move. Undo copy you will come to this message saying are you sure you want to delete the file. This is where you look and say where am I. I can see the full path of where the name is located. It’s in the folder creativity. This is the file right here, it’s being deleted. Yes, that’s fine, let’s delete it. That’s because it was here and I made a copy of it. I was not deleting the original, just deleting the one that I clicked on. If I clicked on this one and say delete, you can see what it’s saying it wants to remove it to recycle bin. I’m not going to do that."