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versioning fails when copying
Hi mtarler,
I thought a custom permission level would work but it did not. I could not find a site, document library or versioning setting that would help either.
This is not ideal, but you can create a trigger to notify you when a file is deleted using Power Automate. This will provide an opportunity to intervene and restore the file (and version history) from the site recycle bin.
I hope this helps.
Norm
Norman Young thank you. In the controlled library the versioning settings are:
content approval - NO
Doc Vers History - Major Versions Only
Draft Items - any user (but not applicable since we have major versions only)
Require Check Out - YES
on a side note. If you consider the "copy to" function will not save prior versions on the source or destination, that doesn't explain the "move to" which is suppose to save prior versions. That said I have no idea how a "move to" versioning would work with overwritting another file that also has versioning. Hence I would expect that in a controlled versioning library the 'move to' function should not be allowed to overwrite another file, but the "copy to" could be used to copy the most recent version of the source and make it the destination's new version and keep the destination version history.
Hi mtarler,
I thought a custom permission level would work but it did not. I could not find a site, document library or versioning setting that would help either.
This is not ideal, but you can create a trigger to notify you when a file is deleted using Power Automate. This will provide an opportunity to intervene and restore the file (and version history) from the site recycle bin.
I hope this helps.
Norm
Norman Young like you said, it is not ideal, but at least that will detect the problem and it can be addressed as opposed to being hidden and not discovered until it is too late (depending on the trash policy)
I think part of the problem is that the warnings are so similar or identical. If you are trained/used to getting the "warning this will overwrite..." dialog when you drag and drop, you wont think twice about that same warning when you copy/move, but now you lost your version history.