Changes to files, or different versions of files, can be previewed in Microsoft® Office® software, with a timeline feature, that can roll back the changes, and still keep the data that has been modified, when a setting in Microsoft® Office®, in Microsoft® Windows®, for instance, is set to keep all changes to all Microsoft® Office® compatible files. There could also be a separate setting, that would ensure that all file versions of all files, are kept separately, however also stored together, such as with a file view, with the different versions of files, that would show every version of every file that has ever existed in Microsoft® OneDrive®, and then also show the unique properties, including a diff of every file, in the Windows® Explorer®, to show what the differences are with the different versions of the file, or even just an explanation as to the differences, such as what changed between different versions, and can show a unique display of graphics for each file that has different versions over time, in this view, to show which file(s) had “the goodies”, and even have an option to merge all the files, into a single file with “all the goods”, even with an intelligent processing system that can determine if there was extraneous information that needed to be excluded, or such as an optimized merge of the files, and then there would also be a unique Microsoft® OneDrive® file history viewer in Microsoft® Office®, that shows the different versions of the file, as one file, for an instance, that shows how the file was different, with different versions, such as to extrapolate which file had “the goods”, and even to allow the user to intelligently select which “goods” they wanted to merge into a new version of the file. There would be a way to resolve merging issues with other types of files in Microsoft® OneDrive®, as well, including merging other industry files, such as Intuit® QuickBooks® files, or showing different file versions, such as files with the same content, or approximately the same content, such as image files, that have been renamed, or the image content has been resized, or flipped, or inverted, or recolored, or otherwise has been changed, such as with the addition of a logo, or text over a picture, to match up and group all files that pertained to an original image, for instance, in a file group view, even if the files are in different directories, and then also, the Microsoft® Windows® Explorer Indexing service would keep track of the similarities and the differences between different files that are similar, however even dissimilar, and then store this data in a new Microsoft® Windows® File System Indexing data structure, that would include graph database data, with descriptive content, and this data would also be synchronized with Microsoft® OneDrive®, and then these different views would also be available through Microsoft® OneDrive®, online. There would also be an intelligent mass file renaming and an intelligent mass file modification system, that would work with Microsoft® Copilot®, in the Microsoft® Windows® File System, that would allow many modifications to many files, all with the same atomic command-line driven operations, based on execution of plain text by Microsoft® Copilot® to perform Microsoft® Windows® functions. Microsoft® OneDrive® would also synchronize all settings of individual profiles of Microsoft® Windows®, so when a new computer system is purchased, or a computer system is “formatted” and “reinstalled”, all of the settings that pertained to the user account on the old installation version of the computer system ‘come right over’, or the settings import themselves, when the same physical hardware, or a new computer system, when an option of “matriculate my current or old settings” is selected when installing after entering the Microsoft® Account login information, and the computer system can optimize the settings based on new computer hardware, as well.
- Patrick R. McElhiney
- Microsoft Office Software Improvements (IT-SWI-MSI-MSO)
















