This is an interesting tip for finding old versions of files you may have knocking about on your hard disk. Assuming you have Google Desktop up and running, if you run a search and select the option to 'See nnn desktop results in a browser' (where nnn is the number of results) you see a typical set of google search results, all the files found, ok that's to be expected and nothing special. However, if you then look at the number of 'cached' entries for each listing you may find that google desktop has kept copies of older versions of your favourite files. If it says '57 cached' then there are 57 older versions and you can click on this number and get a timeline of all the various versions of the file.
Ok, your fancy formatting may be lost but if you just decided that maybe it wasn't a good idea to rewrite your memoirs from the perspective of your cat then the previous version may still be there somewhere.
Peter's Moblog
