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You can browse and recover snapshots from the GNOME desktop file manager, which is accessed as follows:
- Click on the Desktop icon under the Places tab
- Click the clock icon with the slider from the Desktop - File Browser
- Browse your snapshots by opening any folder in the GNOME file manager.
If the Restore icon (clock with slider ) is enabled, snapshots of this directory are available.
- Click on the clock icon to access snapshot navigation features.
Directly below the location: URL section is a one line description of the following information:
- The timeline or date and time that the snapshot was taken
- The location in the backup timeline of the current snapshot
- The number of snapshots available for this directory and the space consumed by ZFS snapshots
- Drag the slider into the past to retrieve previous versions of your files.
You can open all your files in read-only mode. Or, you can browse in list view mode (as oppose to icon view) so that a "restore information" column automatically appears. This column gives you contextual information about either of the following:
- The file version number, if you browse in the current or latest version of a directory
- The difference, if any, between the file snapshot and the latest version of the file
- Recover files from an automatic snapshot from either of the following methods:
- Drag and drop a snapshot into another file manager window
- Right click the mouse and select the restore to Desktop icon. Then, copy and paste the selected snapshot to the present time.
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