If you enabled File History (it's disabled by default), all you have to do is use it to recover the file. File History saves the state of the included folders at a specific time.

You can back up and restore files with Windows’ built-in File History tool — but there are key limitations you should know.

Check out the new Windows Update and Recovery options in Change PC Settings in Windows 8.1. It includes Windows Update, File History & Recovery.

If you've accidentally deleted precious files from an SD card, follow our tips to restore your missing data.

See There are no Previous Versions available message? Enable Previous Versions to recover files on Windows via File History or Task Scheduler.

File History automatically backs up important files and documents, while the Windows Backup Tool backs up core files, settings, and apps so you can copy them to a new PC.

Windows File History is still the easiest, cheapest (free) continuous data protection software for Windows. The Add folder function has been removed, but it will back up Libraries you create ...

File History automatically backs up important files and documents, while the Windows Backup Tool backs up core files, settings, and apps so you can copy them to a new PC.

Figure 1: You have to activate it first, but Windows 8 File History will periodically save the contents of your Contacts, Desktop, Favorites and Libraries to a secondary or external hard drive or ...

Anyway, if you open the File History recovery as mentioned and it is empty (there should be a message saying it can't find any file history or similar) then check in the Backup/File history parts ...