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Version History Empty
I use to use the feature https://support.microsoft.com/pt-br/office/restaurar-uma-vers%C3%A3o-anterior-de-um-arquivo-do-excel-89c09b39-8f01-456e-82be-5d89f371436a to recover old versions of my files. But today, when I went to recover a June 30th version of an Excel file, the versions table is empty.
Is there any other way to recover old versions?
This empty table is an application bug?
Due to any unkown reason, the history version came back! I've just recovered the June-30th version.
Thank you for your attetion!
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Could you please clarify
- there is no version history both on OneDrive opened in browser and on local device on mapped OneDrive folder with File Explorer right click menu
- Version history doesn't work for any file saved on OneDrive, not only for this particular one
- You don't have special symbols like ampersand (&) or percent (%) both in file and folder (or folders hierarchy) names
- File extension is .xlsx
What of above is correct?
- Correct.
- I'm sorry. I was not precise. The version history doesn't work for this particular one.
- No, I don't.
- Correct.
Unfortunately I don't know how to restore lost versions. Based on your update version history shall work, perhaps some bug. I'd start from scratch - download your file on local drive, rename and upload on OneDrive. Check if version history works with it. If not - have no idea but to play with the file. If works - you lost previous history, but have one for future work.
Thx Kidd.
I ofen use this feature for all my Office files and I never had a problem except now. The main issue is that I use this very file every day and the version history remain empty so far. Thus, my file versions are not being generated.
Let me answer your statements in the same order:
- The file is saved to OneDrive.
- My OneDrive Office files have AUTOSAVE ON always.
- As I wrote at the beginning of his message, I use this file every single day and the versions are not being generated.
- How can I evalute it?
Hope this infomation helps you to help me.
Worth to take a look at the following:
- File not saved to OneDrive or SharePoint: Version history only works if the file is stored in the Cloud. If it was saved locally or moved, the history won’t be available.
- AutoSave was off: Without AutoSave enabled, Excel only creates versions when you manually save and close the file.
- File was overwritten or reverted: If the file was restored to an older version or duplicated, the version history may reset.
- Sync issues: If OneDrive or SharePoint had trouble syncing, versions might not have been captured properly.
