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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
Totally agree. We want to implement a document management system with version history and this behaviour completely threatens to undermine all of the security we have built into our controlled libraries. We should not have to depend on staff understanding that 'replace' means different things depending on if you are uploading or copying - especially as this does not appear to be documented - and we found it out by accident during testing. Another serious problem we ahve found is that copying a document with the same name from another site completely overrides a document in a check out to edit library even when it is not checked out - whole history gone!
