The discontinuation of CrashPlan for Home on 22 October 2018 is coming soon (see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), so I’ve been receiving questions about how best to restore ...

If you are a heavy PC user, you might use RAR or archive files to store or keep your files organized. However, many of us often delete random RAR files that might contain important data. If you did ...

What is a PST File? The PST File of Microsoft Outlook is a useful application that allows the storage of Outlook emails for both received and sent emails in the hard drive of the computer.

Time Machine is an archive rather than a backup, because it retains multiple versions of files as you change them. That’s useful, because if you’re editing an image, a word-processing file, or another ...

Microsoft Outlook automatically archives your data on a routine basis using its AutoArchive feature. Archived data is saved in an archive.pst folder. The benefit is that recovering old calendar ...

The OneDrive team at Microsoft has introduced a helpful feature for OneDrive for Business and OneDrive Personal users. This feature is called Files Restore. Sometimes, when we are handling ...

Although the ZIP compressed file format is supported by Windows 7, RAR files offer several advantages, including tighter compression and multi-part archives. These advantages make uploading or ...

One of the key reasons to have a continuously running backup, whether to local storage or a cloud-backed provider, is to restore files you accidentally delete. Macworld reader Helena is trying to ...

If your PC is your only backup, at least make it corruption-proof—here's how ...

Apple has little known iCloud tools that are designed to let you recover files that have been deleted from ‌iCloud‌, as well as recover Contacts, Calendars, and Reminders that have been lost. Lost ...