Shadow Copies (Previous versions) of files do not work?

[Alexander]

Hi everybody! Just another one problem and question if I do everything
correctly or no.

I've read a lot about the so-called Shadow Copies (previous versions) od
files, documents etc. But I can't figure out how to make it fork on my
system.

Here is my situation: I use Vista Ultimate Russian so function should work
for this version of Windows. I have some Excel file that I work with every
day making some everyday changes to it. It's located inside subfolder in My
Documents folder.

I've enabled Automatic restore points for both my logical drives.

BUT when I go to properties of my Excel file and select the tab Previous
Versions it says me that there is NO previous versions for this file. For
several months I work with this file every day changing it but it never
showed me any previous versions. I specially played with other files testing
the feature but also no success.

The system restore function itself works well.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Hi everybody! Just another one problem and question if I do everything
correctly or no.

I've read a lot about the so-called Shadow Copies (previous versions) od
files, documents etc. But I can't figure out how to make it fork on my
system.

Here is my situation: I use Vista Ultimate Russian so function should
work for this version of Windows. I have some Excel file that I work with
every day making some everyday changes to it. It's located inside
subfolder in My Documents folder.

I've enabled Automatic restore points for both my logical drives.

BUT when I go to properties of my Excel file and select the tab Previous
Versions it says me that there is NO previous versions for this file. For
several months I work with this file every day changing it but it never
showed me any previous versions. I specially played with other files
testing the feature but also no success.

The system restore function itself works well.

Are you dual booting with XP?

Lang

 

[Alexander]

Hi! No. As I've said I have no problems with system restore in general (if I
dual-boot system restore won't work as it's described in help) but I don't
use XP.

May be this matters - when I first installed Vista it was dual-boot but then
I removed XP and reformatted XP's volume so now I don't have dual-boot. And
once again System Restore works Ok but Shadow Copies simply don't work...