Verjet 1.0 Beta

There are times when the undo button just isn’t enough: You don’t want to undo the last one, two, or 10 actions you’ve performed, you want to start over completely with your changes. Many programs have a revert command, but these usually only let you go back one version. Enter Verjet, a universal versioning and regression utility for Windows, which works with nearly anything and is simple to use.

Once you install Verjet, you tell it what folders you want it to monitor (such as My Documents), and you’re basically finished with setup and configuration. Thereafter, any time you save a file in that folder or its subdirectories, Verjet takes a copy, renames it based on the date and time, and then stores it away in an invisible subfolder called “__history.” To restore an older version of a file, click the Browse button in the Verjet Control Center, right-click your file, and select History from the dropdown menu. In the Verjet History View window, select the older version of the file you want to restore and click the
Revert button.

Although compatible with many programs’ files, there can be drawbacks. For starters, Verjet consumes a lot of hard drive space; for example, 20 versions of a 100KB Word document take up 2MB in that hidden folder, and there’s no built-in way to reclaim space after you intentionally delete the original file. Working with very large files (such as videos) dramatically worsens the hard drive space problem and can slow the computer somewhat.

Still, with huge hard drives and fast processors cheaper than ever, perhaps these problems aren’t that significant, especially when dealing mostly with Microsoft Office files. Final version prices are yet to be determined, but the beta is “free for now,” meaning now is the time to get in on the action.

URL: www.verjet.com

[tags]Verjet, File Recovery[/tags]