ChatGPT Work can open local folders on your Mac and create, edit, rename, move, and organize files with your permission. That’s powerful - and it means a single task can change more than you asked. These guides cover the two questions that follow: how to see exactly what changed, and how to take back just the part you didn’t want.
Each one stands on its own, whether or not you use CoworkRestore. When it’s relevant, they show how automatic folder watching gives you a per-file undo - see how CoworkRestore works with ChatGPT Work.
Keep the edit you asked for, undo the one you didn't. How to review and roll back what ChatGPT Work changed in a Mac folder - file by file.
Read guideThe honest, conditional answer - plus every place on your Mac a "deleted" file might still be, and what recovers it if a snapshot exists.
Read guideThe chat summary isn't a file history. How to see every file ChatGPT Work added, changed, or deleted - and view any of them as they were before.
Read guideWhen a ChatGPT Work cleanup moves, renames, or regroups the wrong files - what's recoverable, and how to roll the folder back cleanly.
Read guideAn unattended or scheduled ChatGPT Work run touched files. How to find the time window, review everything, keep the good, and reverse the rest.
Read guideA calm, practical setup for giving ChatGPT Work folder access without losing sleep: scope, test tasks, snapshots, and what to check after.
Read guideTwelve real, non-technical ChatGPT Work tasks - inputs, expected output, a prompt to start from, and what to protect before you run each one.
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