Forum Discussion

davidlongswe's avatar
davidlongswe
Copper Contributor
Apr 01, 2025

Document not retaining version history on Move To

I've added new document libraries to my sharepoint site to effectively use as "Archives". The problem I am facing is when i move files to my "Archive", which resides in the same SharePoint site all o...
Document Library
files
SharePoint Online
Rob_Elliott's avatar
Rob_Elliott
Silver Contributor
Apr 02, 2025

 

This is known behaviour with SharePoint and your use case is a very common one, particularly where you  are using SharePoint as a document management system. The only solution that I am aware of is to build a flow in power automate that would have the the following send an http request action. It will move the document to the specified library & folder and retain the versions.

 

Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

nrossing's avatar
nrossing
Brass Contributor
Aug 10, 2026

Thank you for this! This worked for me in copying the version history when I moved a file from one document library to another document library. Screenshot 1 is of my Original document library and its version history. Screenshot 2 is of my Test Archive library where the "Move to test" field does not exist, but the rest of the version history properly copied.