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Roger Gu
Microsoft
MicrosoftVersioning update to Document Libraries in team sites in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
The announcement has been moved to New Updates to OneDrive and SharePoint Team Site Versioning.
Given the way auto-save works would it be better to use Major and Minor versioning by default. That would increase the version capacity to account for auto-saves.
Roger GuMajor/minor versioning is for publishing rather than the capacity of versions. Publishing a minor version to a major version is a workflow, that requires user's explicit action and may have specific permission requirement.- Though I think you miss my point. Major and minor does not need a workflow. It generates capacity. Items like autosaves should be minor versions. Easy to purge a batches.
- Roger Gu
The problem is that minor versions have a limit. When it hits the limit, users have to "publish" to a major version in order to continue to save. Depending on the client application that saves on behalf of the user, the publish gesture may not always be available for the user in the middle of save. Then the user will get stuck.