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History

The completed tab lists every anonymization run: file name, mode or profile, entity count, and when it ran.

Open any entry to see exactly what changed: one row per detected entity with its type, the original text, and the replacement. For synthetic values there is a fourth column: click it to see the exact Faker generator function that produced the fake value. This table is the audit trail; reviewing it is how you verify a run before trusting the output.

The table has its own search box (matching originals and replacements), a Download CSV button, and Copy all as CSV for pasting into a spreadsheet.

The search box matches against file names, original values, and replacements. Searching for a person’s name answers the question “which documents mentioned her, and what did she become in each one?”

  • Open the anonymized file in its default app, or open the original it was made from
  • Open in the editor (the overlapping-frames icon) to review and refine the result in the Anonymization Editor
  • Reveal the output in Finder or Explorer
  • Re-add the original to the queue to run it again with a different mode or profile
  • Rename the history entry
  • Clear the entry, optionally deleting the output file from disk too

Multi-select works for bulk clearing or deleting. Clearing history removes the stored replacement rows, which contain original PII values, so it is also a data-hygiene action; see privacy.

Each entry stores a snapshot of the profile configuration used for that run. Edit or delete a profile later and the history still shows the settings that actually produced each file.