I found a new way of using a backup, more specifically the wonderfully simple Apple Time Machine backup.
I'm probably not the first to think of this, but I'm also sure there are many who haven't thought of it.
Normally the backup Time Machine is used like this: you go back to the time the file was not yet messed up, and you restore it to replace the file you have now.
You can also elect to keep both, but the restored file will anyway take the place and file name of the present one. So if you have have made changes since then that you would like to keep, they are lost, or you have to mess around a bit.
But an alternative is to open the backup volume, go into the chronological backup hierarchy, and select the file which has the content which was lost. Then you open it. And you also open the present version of the file. And then you can copy/paste or just drag the content from the restored file to the present one, without losing the content you'd put in it since then.
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A simple alternative would be to Save As the file that is messed up with a different name, perhaps containing the acronym FU in its name, so there is no confusion. Then when the restore comes in, doctor back and forth.
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