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Stephen B.21
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Renamed a file and lost previous versions

I update one of my files every week and therefore have a number of previous versions. However today I decided to rename the file and now I don't have ANY of my previous versions??? Please help 🙂
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DaveC2
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

@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.

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