# File Server

## How to Retrieve a Copy of a File from the Vault (Original Location)

| ### What to do:
| Displaying files without modifying them is a recurring task. For this reason copies of the files stored in the vault may be retrieved (Retrieve copy). To work through this example, you must first complete the example Add New Files to a Vault.
| Select Start > Documents > All Documents The Document mask is opened.
| Searc for DOC-1120 Ball Pen Description.
| Select the Files tab.
| Select the file to be viewed.
| This operation can be performed with any available file.
| Select Check-out > In source directory from the context menu.
| You cannot check this copy back into the vault unless you have reserved the document in the first place. In order to check-in a modified copy into a vault, it has to be checked in like a new file.
| The file is saved at the location where it has been checked in. The Original Disc+Path field contains the original location of the file.