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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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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Disable Ctrl+Z shortcut or clear undo history in Windows Explorer?
Is there any way to disable the CTRL+Z (Undo) shortcut in Windows Explorer? Alternatively, is there a way to have Windows Explorer "forget" its undo history?
The reason I ask is that you may have ...
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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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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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Photoshop enable Multiple undo?
I'm used to applications allowing you to perform multiple undos at once with Ctrl-Z. I've found that at least the default setting in photoshop is only a single undo. How do i change this (im a ...
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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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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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Excel: how to undo in current file only?
Microsoft Excel's undo / redo feature behaves unlike any other program I know. The undo stack seems to be global across all open files, so that undoing sometimes switches to another file and undoes ...
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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 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
and
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Undo the Linux trash command
Can we undo operations done in a terminal, for example, file deletion through rm?
Solutions obtained:
Aliasing
Undelete utilities
Backup utilities
LibTrash
Versioning (FUSE)
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undo Linux's rm? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
UNDO LINUX Trash Command
Hi,
Is there any simple way to undo an rm command?
The question is purely theoretical; I have NEVER deleted the log of a benchmark queue who took ...
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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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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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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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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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Undo tar file extraction mess
I just untar'd an archive that produced a mess of files into my tidy directory. For example:
user@comp:~/tidy$ tar xvf myarchive.tar
file1
file2
dir1/
dir1/file1
dir1/subdir1/
dir1/subdir1/file1
dir2/...
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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 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 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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How can I undo or rollback an "apt-get upgrade" command on Ubuntu?
Is there a way in Ubuntu to rollback or undo the last upgrade after doing an apt-get upgrade if you don't like the results?
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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 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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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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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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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 "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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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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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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sublime text: Undoing an "undo followed by typing"?
Wondering if (perhaps via the console in Sublime?) it is possible to recover from a multi-line undo, followed by typing something (a paste, in my case)?
IOW, I un"did" a bunch of stuff, meant to just ...
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I am only able to undo once in Excel
I can only undo once in Excel and I have taken the steps to change the number in the Edit Registry and that did not fix the problem.
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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 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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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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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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Undo saved file after close
I've lost a very important file, because when I'm working on it, and I decide to test something there, I've deleted a very important part in it, and then my PC shuts down, so now I have missing a very ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Getting spurious undo (Ctrl+Z) sent randomly on a Dell laptop
For the past couple of weeks, my laptop has had a strange problem where it looks like Ctrl+Z is pressed, so I usually lose bits of text I've just typed. If I redo by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Z, the text ...
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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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How to undo an accidental drag and drop
This happens to me in Windows Explorer: I mean to open a folder and manage to move the mouse and accidentally drag the whole folder ... somewhere. Usually I notice, but not always (in which case I ...
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Is there an "undo" command on the Unix comand line?
I get the feeling I'm going to need it one day, like if I've just deleted something I shouldn't have, or renamed something and can't remember what it should be called, etc.
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Undo Ctrl-w in Vim
I'm a pro user of vim, however, somehow I don't seem to have definitively figured out the use of time based undo, or maybe I don't really like it.
Is there a way I can undo a deletion caused by Ctrl-...
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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 ...