Major vs Minor Version History in SharePoint

💻 STILL NEED HELP?

[philpeko]

Hi Maven, thanks for this topic. Would you also consider presenting the use case/workflow of using check in/check out function?

[erikcoronel]

I have a sharepoint site that has a document with 500 major versions, and I want to limit it to 100 major versions. When updating the number of major versions, will the first 400 versions be deleted or will they be kept?

If they are removed, is there a way to recover those versions?

Thanks in advance.

[npc]

What would prevent my view from not showing all versions like yours so frustrated? Thank you!

[spitsparrow]

A really important questions - Does autosave create a new Minor version if minor versions are enabled? I would hate to open a word doc and leave it open for a day of work, only making a few changes. But autosave has saved every 5 minutes and now created version 1.56 or something? I would hope that when you click in to open a doc and then finally click out of it and save.. that you would only move up one minor version. Can you confirm how and when autosave impacts minor versions?

[xenuone]

Is there a way to go back in minor versions while keeping the version number.
Say Document is version 3.5. And I want to go back to version 3.2 and have the version be 3.2 (if we restore, the version becomes 3.6).

So something like the unpublish option but for minor versions?

[trinhlam]

i have excel file name Contracts-GC.xls with many version history from Januart 2023 to May 2023 now i save another file name Contracts-GC-June29.xls, but all original version history gone form my original file name Contracts-GC.xls, how to see again all verion history of Contracts-GC.xls again

[priyankgupta]

Hi Maven, Can you please explain If I have stored Pdf version of any documents (e.g. SOP 56 Rev 1) and when I have updated copy of the document in Pdf (SOP 56 Rev 2). How can I replace them without breaking the link given to other people? Thanks