If Shadow Copies are lost during backup in Windows 11 or you want to fix Volume Shadow Copy service Timeout errors, see this registry fix.

I needed the old document for reference, so to try to get it back I automatically right-clicked on the file name in Explorer to view the shadow copies. There were no shadow copies.

System Restore Points also called Shadow Copies in Windows include all the files and program when it is created. It is possible at a certain point, you may want to recover a file that is now ...

Where are you seeing the space used? Many tools that don't understand shadow copy will inappropriately report sized used. If it's explorer though, I dunno.