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Silver Contributor

Feb 28, 2020

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versioning fails when copying

I apologize if this is answered elsewhere but I couldn't find it. So we have multiple libraries of which 1 is 'controlled' and has versioning turned on. I am trying to use the versioning to maint...

SharePoint Online Versioning

Norman Young
Mar 03, 2020
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

emersonbruce

Copper Contributor

Oct 02, 2023

We also have this issue and it is of concern because it is used for audit and it does not replicate on premises copy using the file explorer (how users used to work). Copy To does not leave the previous history in the Copy To destination and also set the version being copied to be the Latest version. It deleted the entire file and replaces with a single version copy, which is not how it should work. In my opinion this is a straight forward bug, not inconsistent functionality and should be fixed.