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Iron Contributor

Mar 05, 2019

SharePoint Online - Discard Check Out option missing for discarding other users files

I am a Site Collection Admin and I occasionally need to Discard Check Out for other users' files. This option has recently gone missing from our modern library experience. Is anyone else experiencing...

Copper Contributor

May 03, 2019

Kimberly Roetman I am a global admin and have the same issue, the Discard Check Out has disappeared for me. I need check in a document that a colleague checked out and has now since left the company.

Thanks,

James

Kimberly Roetman wrote:
I am a Site Collection Admin and I occasionally need to Discard Check Out for other users' files. This option has recently gone missing from our modern library experience. Is anyone else experiencing this or is there a method that I am not seeing?

Note: I can still discard check out for files that I have checked out. Just not for files that I do not have checked out.

I've been working around this by jumping into the Classic Experience, but would like the option back in the modern experience.

Kimberly Roetman
Iron Contributor
May 03, 2019
James Howell - I worked around it by jumping into 'Classic Experience' (link at the bottom of the left quick launch). The 'Discard Check Out' option still existed there.
- Helios Comms
  Iron Contributor
  May 28, 2019
  Has anyone raised a support ticket on this? I'm pretty sure that there used to be a discard checkout on the modern view? A few weeks later and it's still not working here unless you switch back to classic view.
  - Kimberly Roetman
    Iron Contributor
    May 29, 2019
    Helios Comms I did not raise a ticket. I've had it disappear, reappear, then disappear again. Currently it is not showing in my tenant. I assumed it was related to being a first release user...?
- Helios Comms
  Iron Contributor
  May 07, 2019
  Just jumping in here with a "me too" - users were trying to move some checked-out PDFs and couldn't. The discard checkout option was missing from modern view - I'm both an owner of this Office 365 group and global administrator. Fortunately, it's still there on the classic view. Something has changed/broken recently obviously!