Renamed a file and lost previous versions

Have you considers the most obvious act?
Lets see today when I RENAMED MY FILE i lost all the version history.
Tomorrow when you RENAME YOUR FILE BACK AGAIN, you might find them.

Great idea Dave.

Tried it today and the same thing happened. There was the current version and a old version, then after the rename there were no other versions.

Hi,

I renamed a file and cant find previous

The previous versions will be attached to the original file's name. 

Go back to the original files names for the previous versions. 

The new named file is a new file, so has no history. 

That is NOT how version control works. I've been managing DMS (Document Management Systems) at work and over the years I have not heard of anything as ridiculous as that. Another reason why I don't use Dropbox anymore. Google Drive does the same and more. 

@Stephen B.  DB does not supply a DMS, it supplies a synced document/file system. 

The version of each file inserted into the system is tracked and stored under the filename of the file inserted/edited/removed. It never claimed to be a management system where a rename or move would be tracked, in fact the whole idea of that is pretty hard to grasp on a post event basis (which DB is doing), DMS require you to check in and check out etc, Db just watches for anything you do.

Thanks for confirming its another reason to NOT use Dropbox and continue using Google Drive. I tested the version control in Google Drive and it works as per a DMS system (checking in and out is not what I'm talking about) where you can rename a file but keep the previous versions. 

Simply look at the deleted files. The old deleted name one will have history.

That is the best you can come up with?! If Google Drive can manage it the Dropbox can (especially considering cloud storage is the ONLY service they offer). 

i have a link that doesn't work any more because the file was briefly renamed