When something deletes your files,
put them back.

Safety Net keeps a private history of the folders you choose on your Mac. If an app, a script or an AI agent deletes or rewrites files there, you can put the folder back as it was, in one step. The history is kept by VaultSort’s helper in a system-owned store that programs running as you, including AI agents, can’t read, change or delete.

Yes, if the folder was protected beforehand. Commands like rm skip the Trash, and an agent’s own undo usually doesn’t cover shell commands, but Safety Net’s history doesn’t depend on either. In our tests, a folder of 550 files deleted outright with rm -rf came back in a few seconds. If the folder wasn’t protected yet, check the Trash, your cloud service’s deleted files and your backups.

Not an agent running as you, which is how AI agents run. The history isn’t in your home folder or owned by your account; only VaultSort’s privileged helper writes to it. Turning Safety Net off for a folder deletes its history, so macOS asks for your password first. Safety Net can’t stop a process running as an administrator (with sudo or as root), so if an agent asks for your Mac password, that’s the moment to say no.

More than 200 files deleted or changed within 60 seconds in a protected folder counts as a burst. VaultSort then offers to restore the folder as it was just before, with a notification or in the app. If VaultSort isn’t open, it opens by itself. Leave As Is keeps things as they are, and Not Now asks again later. In our tests, the offer appeared within 2 to 12 seconds of the burst.

Restore… lists each folder’s restore points: before a burst of changes, before an AI app connected through VaultSort’s AI Connections first changes the folder, and before a restore. Connected AI apps can also save a restore point themselves before risky work, kept for 3 days, and ask you to restore one. Restoring is always your decision.

No. A restore puts deleted and changed files back as they were and keeps files created since, so you don’t lose new work. Before restoring, Safety Net saves a “Before a restore” point, so the restore itself can be undone.

No. The history lives on the same disk as your files, so it protects against mistakes, not against a failed, lost or stolen disk. Keep Time Machine or another backup as well; the two cover different failures.

Time Machine copies your Mac to a separate disk, hourly by default, and survives a disk failure. Safety Net keeps a history on your Mac’s internal disk as files change, so it can go back to moments before a mistake, and it tells you when hundreds of files change at once. They cover different failures. Use both.

History is kept for 30 days. It holds earlier versions of files that were changed or deleted in your protected folders, with no size cap, so a folder that changes a lot holds more. VaultSort shows an “up to” figure for the space the history may be using.

The free version of VaultSort protects one folder and shows burst alerts. Premium protects as many folders as you like. Restoring is always free: anything in the history can be restored without Premium.

Yes. Safety Net watches folders, not agents, so it doesn’t matter which app made the change. It also catches your own mistakes, a script gone wrong, and a sync client copying a deletion from another computer.

Yes. When something you securely delete, encrypt with “delete original”, or move to the Vault is in a protected folder, VaultSort asks whether to erase its earlier versions from Safety Net’s history too. Erase History and Delete asks for your password, then overwrites and removes those copies. If the history can’t be fully erased, VaultSort tells you.

A Mac, and VaultSort’s helper, which the Safety Net page offers to install the first time you open it. It protects folders on your Mac’s internal disk; folders on external drives can’t be protected. Safety Net isn’t available on Windows yet.