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Is it possible to use Time Machine to recover a previous saved version of my PDF?

I have some PDF documents in my Dropbox that I highlight on my phone or my iPad and synchronize them (saving more of). Apparently, I downloaded an older version at some point and now one of the PDF files has lost a lot of my notes. I thought that my selection being on my time machine, maybe there is a way to go back to older versions of these files and see if I can return the PDF files before I replaced the.

However I do not know if you an extract PDF files inside time machine. Maybe you can see if the size of the file has changed, but because they are just highlights it is possible that the size of the file is the same. Also, I don't think that you can drag files from the machine of the time on your desktop and open them later. I don't want to get back the files without knowing what I'm going to come back. What is the best method to retrieve the file?

Yes,

If files existed at a specific time go back to where they've been with TM and restore them. You can not 'visually' preview then until they are restored as far as I KNOW.

You can change the names of the current before do you if you don't want to overwrite or compare.

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