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How long does OneDrive for Business keep Version History? How many Version?
How long does OneDrive for Business keep Version History? How many Version? OneDrive only saves for 30 days. I need to keep files indefinately.
By default 500 versions are kept, you can confirm this using these https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_onedrivefb-mso_win10/onedrive-for-business-version-settings/584f7008-04ee-4cca-b657-12043b70b020
According to this https://support.office.com/en-us/article/How-does-versioning-work-in-a-SharePoint-list-or-library-0f6cd105-974f-44a4-aadb-43ac5bdfd247, versions are kept indefinitely but once the limit is reached, older versions will be deleted automatically per this example:
"If your most recent version is 26.0 and you notice that there is no longer a version 1.0, it means that the administrator configured the library to allow only 25 major versions of a file. The addition of the 26th version causes the first version to be deleted. Only versions 2.0 through 26.0 remain. Similarly, if a 27th version is added, only versions 3.0 through 27.0 remain."
For the default setting, after the 501 version, if it ever got that high, this would delete the first version etc.
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By default 500 versions are kept, you can confirm this using these https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_onedrivefb-mso_win10/onedrive-for-business-version-settings/584f7008-04ee-4cca-b657-12043b70b020
According to this https://support.office.com/en-us/article/How-does-versioning-work-in-a-SharePoint-list-or-library-0f6cd105-974f-44a4-aadb-43ac5bdfd247, versions are kept indefinitely but once the limit is reached, older versions will be deleted automatically per this example:
"If your most recent version is 26.0 and you notice that there is no longer a version 1.0, it means that the administrator configured the library to allow only 25 major versions of a file. The addition of the 26th version causes the first version to be deleted. Only versions 2.0 through 26.0 remain. Similarly, if a 27th version is added, only versions 3.0 through 27.0 remain."
For the default setting, after the 501 version, if it ever got that high, this would delete the first version etc.
Cian Allner How about personal OneDrive accounts tho?
mancerrss”OneDrive will keep an older version of your files for 30 days.” This is for OneDrive personal version:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2017/07/19/expanding-onedrive-version-history-support-file-types/
- AFAIK, there is not a limit established in the number of versions per document you have in ODFB
