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Looking for a GUI way to browse through my backups, find a specific file in a specific folder and restore that.

No, I don't want to restore something to a folder that might not even exist anymore. I don't want to recover an entire directory structure. Just give me a hierarchical file view where I can pick something and restore it to a folder of my choosing. And I don't want to use the terminal to do this.

There must be something obvious I'm missing.

Looking for a GUI way to browse through my backups, find a specific file in a specific folder and restore that. No, I don't want to restore something to a folder that might not even exist anymore. I don't want to recover an entire directory structure. Just give me a hierarchical file view where I can pick something and restore it to a folder of my choosing. And I don't want to use the terminal to do this. There must be something obvious I'm missing.
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Do you mean a snapshot of the system based on days/weeks/months? Timeshift does that.

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All I want is to open a backup set, browse to file.name, select it and pull it out of the backup into a directory of my choosing. Basic stuff.

Saw Timeshift on a Mint machine, might give it a try. That means years worth of backups are less than useful.

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crApple does it, but at least you can drag and drop any file/folder anywhere you have write access.

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I'm not sure if Timeshift has the ability to do individual files/directories. Never needed it for that. Whenever I roll back, it's cause I did something stupid, or an update didn't play nice and I need to wait for people smarter than me to fix the problem

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TM has a feature that lets you time scroll in a 3D like layer of the folder where you invoked it.

You can restore a missing/deleted file/folder or restore it anywhere you want.