Undo and History

Every organise run (and every committed staging run) is recorded, so it can be reversed. Undo never deletes anything.

Undo the last run

Undo last (Ctrl+Z) moves every file of the newest run back to where it was. The confirmation names the run: date, number of files and folder.

Undo an older run

History… lists the undoable runs, newest first, with date and time (local time), number of files and folder. All folders share one history, so the folder column tells the runs apart; Open folder opens it. Automatic runs from Auto-Organize are marked automatic. Select a run and press Undo selected (or double-click it), then confirm.

Runs can be undone in any order: if a newer run moved a file again, Undo follows the file to where it is now and restores it to its original place.

How many runs are kept

• The newest 20 manual and the newest 20 automatic runs stay undoable — counted separately, so a busy schedule cannot push your manual runs out.
• Older runs are moved to history/trimmed/ (up to 200) and are no longer listed, but Undo still uses them to follow files they moved.
• A run file that is damaged (no longer valid JSON) is not listed. Undo last moves it to history/damaged/ and undoes the newest readable run instead.
• The log warns when a manual run drops out of the list.

Good to know

• Name conflicts — if a file with the same name has appeared in the original place, the restored file gets a _1, _2 … suffix.
• Files that cannot be restored (e.g. open in another program) stay in the history entry. Fix the cause and undo the same run again.
• Missing files — a file you deleted or moved yourself after the run is skipped and named in the log.
• Empty folders — category folders created by the run are removed again if they are empty after the undo.
• Crash-safe — the history is written while files are being moved, so even a crash or power cut leaves an undo record for everything moved so far.
• Auto-organize — after undoing a run in the folder that Auto-organize watches, you are asked whether to pause it, so it does not sort the files again.
• Clock-independent — runs are numbered; a wrong or jumping system clock (e.g. dual boot) cannot change their order.

Runs are stored in the history/ folder — see Data and Settings.