ToolWatcher

I have used a few different types of programs to keep track of documents, but as you may have guessed my favorite is FileHamster. There are many ways to lose work and current versions of files. Files can be corrupted, hard drives crash and people overwrite their work all the time. As I mentioned before FileHamster will keep each version of your file for you as you work. When something goes awry (as it often does with me at the helm of my computer) FileHamster has a simple and quick way to get things back to normal.

If I need to check differences in versions of a file that I have messed up I can use their diff feature which comes with the Advanced version. After diffing them to see which one you want to return to. Just right-click on the revision you want to revert to and choose ‘Restore’ from the menu. This will, of course, put your selected document revision back in the place of where the original file was. If the original file is missing restoring one of the revisions will put that file into the place of the original.

I have used this on Word documents, Excel files, Photoshop files, PHP, HTML and all kinds of other files. FileHamster can restore all of these documents and files to a previous revision in a snap. I really can’t tell you how much I am enjoying this tool. It’s not for lack of trying though.