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How long does OneDrive for Business keep Version History? How many Version?
By default 500 versions are kept, you can confirm this using these instructions
According to this article, versions are kept indefinitely but once the limit is reached, older versions will be deleted automatically per this example:
"If your most recent version is 26.0 and you notice that there is no longer a version 1.0, it means that the administrator configured the library to allow only 25 major versions of a file. The addition of the 26th version causes the first version to be deleted. Only versions 2.0 through 26.0 remain. Similarly, if a 27th version is added, only versions 3.0 through 27.0 remain."
For the default setting, after the 501 version, if it ever got that high, this would delete the first version etc.
As far as I can tell are the file history not limited in time. For the Office 365 Single license, it seems to save up to 25 history versions. No matter how old they are.
And it seems, that they do not count to your size quota of the OneDrive.
For Business Accounts (E3) you can define how many history files you want to keep.
I hope, this helps.
CVeronesi
Perfect, I appreciate the quick response. Thank you!
