# File Versioning locally

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/file-versioning-locally/13143
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/file-versioning-locally/13143 "2019-04-09T01:24:35Z")
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### Author: ![calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/calmh/32/15311_2.png) [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/file-versioning-locally/13143/2 "2019-04-09T05:55:43Z")

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There is certainly a case for local file versions, many OS:es offer this somehow out of the box (Windows shadow copies etc). But it’s not really part of _file syncing_ and it’s difficult to do _correctly_ in an external application so I feel this is out of scope for Syncthing.

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