Questions tagged [undo]
Undo is a command in many computer programs. It erases the last change done to the document reverting it to an older state. In some more advanced programs such as graphic processing, undo will negate the last command done to the file being edited.
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How to uncompress files "user" in c drive
So I did this thing without knowing the consequences.
I went to the
local c drive > User folder > left click the file > attributes > Click advanced > clicked "compress content to ...
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Do actions executed by .bat files get affected by UNDO/REDO functions
I often use .bat scripts that delete, copy, paste, rename, or move files. I'm not sure that when I execute one of these .bat scripts that I will be able to use the Windows Explorer 'Undo' function (...
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How can I undo OCR in Foxit?
Optical character recognition (OCR) in Foxit sometimes mess up the font. E.g., before OCR:
After OCR:
How can I undo OCR in Foxit? Ctrl+Z doesn't undo OCR. I use Foxit 11.2 on Windows 10. I made ...
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How to I undo already commited changes only for a chosen line = at "line level" (not the whole file) in codium/vscode?
Use case. I have committed a file with many changes, and I forgot to make a new commit for a much smaller side-task - to clean the file from some personal outdated e-mails I found in there, which has ...
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Undoing Move Led to Delete
I am hoping someone can help me understand what happened in Windows 10. I have two folders, folder A and folder B. I did a move of files using Ctnl-X, Cntl-V, from A to B. I accidentally had selected ...
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How can I undo a single keystroke in a textarea/contenteditable in Chrome?
Chrome, and other web-browsers, seem to coalesce user-made edits (not just insertions!) in HTML's <textarea> or contenteditable elements into fewer-but-larger undo steps - this is a problem for ...
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How to recover a deleted text file that is still open in vim?
I have text file that is still open in vim, but the original text file has been accidentally deleted. How can I recover it? The text file is still open in vim, so its original data is still stored in ...
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How do I undor/redo edits in Windows 10 CMD?
I see that CMD got a some changes for 10. Including ctrl+C/V.
And for some reason they ruined drag&drop which now ovewrites text instead of inserting it...
But so far I didn't find undo which is ...
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How can I delete openvpn from Red Hat 8?
https://openvpn.net/vpn-software-packages/redhat/ I ran through this setup, but don't know how to undo it.
Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.
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How can I find out what "undo copy" will undo? I don't remember
Yesterday I seem to have copied something and put my laptop to sleep. Now this morning I get the option on every right click (I mean in Windows Explorer and on the desktop) to "Undo Copy", but I ...
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What is the frequency of action of a continuous press of `CTRL + Z`
I would like to know the frequency of performed actions when I long-press the keyboard shortcut CTRL + Z (a.k.a. Undo).
To be specifically clear, when I write a large chunk of text or code in my text ...
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Why doesn't Notepad's Undo function work correctly?
This has been an issue across multiple Windows iterations of Notepad: the undo function, more often than not, doesn't undo the last X actions/characters, rather, it wipes the entire notepad of ...
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Word undo stack corruption (it behaves like a "redo stack"!)
Since a few days the undo stack (list of actions that can be redone) in every Word document behaves in a strange way. Just clicking the undo arrow is working correctly. Also the screen tip text which ...
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How to know what ctrl-z will do in windows explorer?
In earlier windows versions, I could open windows explorer and use the menu bar to mouse-over on "undo", and the status bar would show some information about which file(s) will be involved. I seem to ...
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Undo Microsoft Outlook Quick Steps
If you use Quick Steps in Microsoft Outlook, it does not appear to be undo-able. I am currently using MS Outlook 2016, but I've found this to be the case with every version of Outlook prior. My ...
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Undo "Mark All As Read" in Outlook
I was recently in Outlook in my Inbox, and did a search (default: Current Mailbox). Most results were things I'd sent, and so were marked unread. A bit later, I returned to the search results, but ...
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How can I undo an autofill in Google Chrome?
I used autofill to automatically complete a few fields in a form in Google Chrome. How can I undo the autofill?
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Undo a sort action in Notepad++ [closed]
Notepad++ (7.5.6) (32 bit) will sort all lines in a document using Ctrl-Z. If that is used accidentally, how do you undo the sort?
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How to undo a deleted outlook 2016 calendar event
Is there an easy way to undo deletion of outlook calendar event?
I found
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/recover-deleted-items-in-outlook-for-windows-49e81f3c-c8f4-4426-a0b9-c0fd751d48ce
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Failing to retrieve my Notepad data. Any trick/workaround?
I'm an active user of Notepad, even though it disappointed me a lot of times because of it lacks of recovery features.
My current problem is: I jotted down some things (which I don't really remember ...
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When did the "redo" keyboard shortcut change from Ctrl + Y to Ctrl + Shift + Z? [closed]
For the longest time in my childhood, Ctrl+Z was undo and Ctrl+Y was redo. I remember at some point, some pieces of software started doing Ctrl+ShiftZ for redo, and I found it very jarring at the ...
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How to undo moving a message to an archive in Thunderbird?
In Thunderbird you can archive a message if you hit a.
For example, in the Mail app on macOS there is an option to undo the last action including archiving.
Is it possible to do the same in ...
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Google Chrome Bookmark Folders - Can you Undo 'Reorder By Title'?
In my Google Chrome v53, I have hundreds of bookmarks groped into around 20 folders. Folders were arranged as they were created over a period of time. Certain links that I access frequency were ...
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How to undo changes in command prompt?
I do not know anything about computer coding, so a detailed answer to the solution would be great!
I followed these instructions not knowing what it would do and, in the top answer, the person ...
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Prevent accidental moving mails Thunderbird
Thunderbird moves mails and mail folders without request by drag and drop.
This can happen by accident, if a user clicks on a mail folder and moves the mouse a little (using a bad mouse, or reading ...
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Undo keyboard shortcut debian 8 GNOME 3
I can be short about this, I'm used to that Ctrl-z clears my previous action, for example when typing. Now running Debian 8 With GNOME 3 it does not work, when I press Ctrl-z the "Enter a command" ...
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How to change Word 'undo' behavior to not be character-by-character?
If I type something in Microsoft Word 2016, then press Undo (ctrl+z), it 'undo's what I typed, one character at a time. This is not normal, and is quite frustrating. Normal behaviour is to undo the ...
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Find messages without a label in GMail/ undo Remove Label
I was organising messages in my GMail account, I had a few messages selected (whilst in a sub-folder) and I accidentally clicked Remove Label and now they are gone!
Now I know they are still ...
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How to redo the undo of the creation of a folder in Windows 10?
I made a folder on my desktop to move files off my phone into it.
Halfway through the process, I accidentally copy a file instead of moving it, so I press Ctrl+Z to undo it.
The folder disappears.
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Undo all changes on all open files Sublime 3
anyone knows how to undo all changes done on all open files in Sublime 3?
I changed all </li> tags on my xml to <br /> and <li> to • and clicked save all on file menu.. when undoing ...
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How to turn off write protection in win 7 using diskpart?
a while back i wanted to make my USB write-protected.
So as suggested somewhere i used the CMD command
attributes disk set readonly
Now i want to revert back to full permissions. How to achieve this?
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Why does undo remove history in Solidworks?
I started using Solidworks recently. After drawing many things, pressing Ctrl+Z undoes changes one by one, but removes the history so that I can not redo after I exit from a sketch while undoing.
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Windows 7 Explorer - number of undoable actions (undo levels)?
Could it be M$ changed that number from 10 in previous Windows versions to 1 (ONE)?
Create a new folder. Create 11 new documents of whatever type is handy in your context menu. Delete them one after ...
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How to redo an file which is lost due to "undo"
I have a file on which i was working on yesterday. After saving, I copied it to a pendrive. Then I went to the desktop and bymistakely pressed undo several times.
After a few other-file arrangements, ...
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How to undo autocorrect in libreoffice calc
I would like to prevent libreoffice calc to make autocorrecion in some cases in some cell. For example, sometimes libreoffice decides that some text I enter is a hyperlink and it formats the cell as a ...
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Show hidden icons in icon tray through group policy
Had previously hidden the icon tray through group policy and would now like to add the volume control/sound icon back to the tray. I have disabled the "hide the notification area" and forced the ...
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CTRL+Z (Undo) history/log command? How to revert?
I'm using Windows 8.1 x64.
So, after decades of using Windows, I've just discovered the single most destructive command, and it's an everyday shortcut... The CTRL+Z... Yup, that's right.
Here's the ...
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Can I recover a deleted file from .swp after auto-reloading?
This is related to, but not solved by the question “How can I recover the original file from a .swp file?”.
I had two newly-created files a.txt and b.txt open in buffers. The active buffer was b.txt, ...
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Undo or Redo on specific lines only
I am working on a file and made some changes I'd like to undo. Is there anyway that I can undo changes that were made in the part of the file where my insertion point currently is? I do not want to ...
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Don't load undo file if it's too large in Vim 7.3+
I just copied a massive amount of text (on the order of millions of lines, I think) into a Vim register, opened a new file, pasted, and then proceeded to edit the new copy of the excerpt. Vim was ...
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Searching all versions of a file in the undo tree in VIM
EDIT: I have "manually migrated" this question here: https://vi.stackexchange.com/q/2220/1060
Is there an easier way to find a particular change in Vim's undo tree than just looking at random old ...
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Notepad++ Undo History wanted
I cannot seem to find a history in Notepad++ showing you all the actions you did. Sometimes you might not be sure anymore what the next Undo action would do.
Does this feature really not exist or I ...
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Is it possible to undo a :bdelete in Vim?
I've gotten used to Ctrl-Shift-T in Firefox to undo the closing of a tab, is it possible to get similar functionality in Vim? Googling didn't point me towards anything useful for this.
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did cmd change in Windows 7, how to undo?
Windows 7 was not allowing me to add a new folder within folders. So I made the command prompt change using the icacls command below. This includes 'desktop', which included all the shortcut icons. ...
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Viewing Windows Explorer’s complete Undo history
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Windows Explorer maintains a list of file operations so that you can undo them (10 operations up to XP and 32 from Vista). You can see the last operation without performing it by opening ...
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How can I get Excel's undo/redo functionality to work in a more traditional *per window* manner (and not for the entire instance of Excel)?
This has been driving me crazy lately. I'm not used to having having a program have a global undo/redo functionality (as in when I undo something, it will undo the last action in any currently open ...
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Instead of "mv filename.sql newfolder" I did "mv filename.sql /newfolder" and wiped out a bunch of files?
Like I said, I moved a bunch of sql files but instead of moving them to a directory I seem to have renamed them and put them all in the root directory as one file named "newfolder"
Can I undo this or ...
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Finder - undo close window for Mac OS X
I would like to know if there is any utility for Mac OS X (Mountain Lion) that can "undo" closing of Finder windows - much like tabs in a web browser have the "undo close tab" feature:
My initial ...
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How can I recover from mistaken 'rm *'?
I just typed rm * in the wrong directory by mistake. I had the wrong terminal window highlighted. What are my options?
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linux - systemwide undo or go back in time
Is it possible to undo the entire computer's memory to five minutes in the past? For example, a text editor would be at a state of a 5 minutes ago as well as the web browser's state would also be at ...
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