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StephanGee
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Mar 11, 2022

Versioning is killing our storage - is this a normal behaviour?

Hi everyone,   we recently had to buy more storage (hands if someone else also had too). We knew that we have many mp4s and stuff on our sites.   We then used a program to analyze the storage us...
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FanouXYZ
Copper Contributor
Apr 13, 2023

HelloStephanGee 

 

Have you used any commercial apps or created a script to get the storage space used by the version file?

I would be very grateful if you could tell me the name of this applications 🙂


I tried with Pnp powershell to get this list but without success so far.

 

Best Regards

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    MaxE1310
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 17, 2024

    FanouXYZ 

    Even though I'm way too late with the answer, maybe it will help someone else. Here is the tool that can solve the problem. It can delete old version (and keep only defined number). It can also delete old versions only for certain file types (e.g. only for Excel, Word,...) https://dms-shuttle.com/documentation/delete-version-history-in-sharepoint-online-office-365/ 

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    Paul de Jong
    Iron Contributor
    Apr 13, 2023

    FanouXYZ 
    Some of the document management tools listed at Collab365 provide functionality to find storage hot spots and then delete obsolete versions. See https://collab365.com/best-document-management-solutions-for-sharepoint/.

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