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Merging version history of two files

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Micah Markman

I have a persistent problem of users sticking with the old way of maintaining version history of a file by saving each new version with a version number at end of name (e.g. _v1 _v2 ...). This makes things messy and defeats the value of the version history feature.

However, I haven't find a way to quickly merge these various files together because I cannot rename and then move over each other. Particularly challenging is if one of the files has multiple box version in it.

Any methods to create this version history in box?

This is noticeably inferior to OneDrive Enterprise/SharePoint.

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  • France

    Hi Micah,

    Welcome to the Box Community!
     
    This would be something our Box Support team would like to investigate with you and may require specific account information. 
     
    I've gone ahead and created a ticket for you so that an agent can work directly with you on looking into this. Please check your email for details and updates.
     
    Thanks for your patience!
     
    Best,
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  • Pierre

    Hi Micah,

    I do have the same issue. Have you found a solution?

    Kind regards,

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  • Micah Markman

    Nope, my support ticket ended with "currently unsupported".

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  • Roberto Medellin

    Hi France. Is it supported now?
    I would like these two files to be treated as one item with 71 versions, instead of two with (7+64)

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  • France

    Hi Roberto, 

    Thanks for joining in on this thread and for your post!

    The feature you are inquiring is currently not supported with Box Version history. Your best option is to download all the versions from the file with the lesser version history, rename those files with exactly same name as the file with bigger version history and then re-upload to box to override the file. 
     
    I appreciate your feedback and would highly recommend that you send this directly to our Product Team through Box Pulse for possible consideration and implementation in the future.  Our product managers review these requests and take them into consideration for future product development.
     
    Best,
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  • Matthew Blunt

    This should be a feature

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  • Adrian Visagie

    You are very correct, Matthew Blunt

    This really should be a feature.

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  • Larrimie Gordon

    I think we should all keep posting in this thread until Box makes this a feature... my org has tens of thousands of documents and the solution proposed of downloading all the versions is not feasible.

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  • Bruno Fedh

    It's real annoying  that this isn't available, I have same problem with 2 versions containing different remarks I want to merge into on version.

    Should be a basic feature because it happens often.

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  • Karen

    I am also looking for the feature discussed above, to combine two versions and retain the version history of both. Box, will this be available?

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