# File Server

## How to Retrieve a Copy of a File from the Vault - Retrieve Copy

| ### What to do:
| If you want to view a document without making changes, a copy of the file stored in the vault may be retrieved. To work through this example, you must first complete the example Add new File to a Vault.
| Select Start > Documents > All Documents. The Document mask is opened.
| Search 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.
| To view the file click . The FMS-File Requester is opened.
| Select the target directory where the file is to be stored.
| You cannot check the copy back into the vault unless you have reserved the document for exclusive use. In order to check in a modified copy into a vault, it has to be added like a new file.