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    OneDrive (For Personal Use) Versioning (vs. Others)

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    • BRRABillB
      BRRABill
      last edited by BRRABill

      Well, I was very excited to learn that ODfP does file versioning.

      However, while trying to figure out how long the versions are kept for, I came to find out it only does this for OFFICE files. Not any other type of files.

      Does anyone know if ODfB allows versioning of all files?

      What about DBfP or DBfB?

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        Be careful, your thread is about ODfB but your title is about OneDrive. Those are separate, unrelated products.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          What is DBfB?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            ODfB is Sharepoint and Sharepoint is only MS Office file-aware. If you want generic file versioning you need to work with other products. ODfB is part of the MS Office ecosystem. Doing versioning of non-text files requires special logic in the hosting platform, it cannot be done generically in an efficient way.

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            • BRRABillB
              BRRABill @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said:

              What is DBfB?

              I'm making up my own acronyms now!

              DBfb = DropBox for Business
              DBfP = DropBpx for Personal Use
              ODfP = OneDrive for Personal use

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                last edited by

                @BRRABill is DropBox for Business an actual product? I'm not sure of their product names.

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                • BRRABillB
                  BRRABill @scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  @BRRABill is DropBox for Business an actual product? I'm not sure of their product names.

                  It's actually called DropBox Business, I see.

                  https://www.dropbox.com/business

                  It was recommended by a few here in my other thread.

                  I was going to put THIS thread in THAT thread, but thought it might be better separeted.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                    last edited by

                    @BRRABill okay, I thought that they did not follow the MS naming convention, that was confusing.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      DropBox Business does full versioning, I believe. It is a general purpose storage system using snapshots on the back end.

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                      • BRRABillB
                        BRRABill @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        general purpose

                        You mean not SharePoint/MS integrated.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                          last edited by

                          @BRRABill said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          general purpose

                          You mean not SharePoint/MS integrated.

                          Correct. Sharepoint is application level versioning, it is actually reading the files. You actually edit them inside of Sharepoint. Dropbox is just working at the file / filesystem level.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            Remember that Sharepoint / ODfB is doing awesome things like allowing multiple people to be editing the same document at the same time and communicate with each other through the document, make changes together, see updates from the other person as you go. It is a collaboration extension of MS Office.

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                            • BRRABillB
                              BRRABill
                              last edited by

                              And with a product like DropBox Busniess I can collaborate by SHARING, but not working on the document at the same time.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                                last edited by

                                @BRRABill said:

                                And with a product like DropBox Busniess I can collaborate by SHARING, but not working on the document at the same time.

                                Right, which is a bit different.

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