无论是开发人员、数据科学家、photoshop 专家还是Office用户，版本控制(Version Control)或版本历史(Version History)都是当今最常用和最重要的功能。随着现代对工作协作的重视，您实际上需要维护不同版本的不同副本。这样如果发生任何问题，您可以及时切换回之前的阶段。由于大多数协作都发生在云中，版本历史记录是云存储提供商提供的主要功能。
如果您是OneDrive用户，您可能已经注意到版本历史记录已经可用于所有文档文件。您可以轻松地回到过去并从早期阶段恢复文档。但OneDrive最近宣布他们一直在扩展此功能以支持所有文件类型(all file types)。这不仅使将OneDrive用于更多目的变得可行，而且还为现有的版本历史功能添加了功能。
OneDrive版本历史记录(Version History)恢复旧文件
由于该功能现在适用于所有文件类型，因此您不必担心文件被意外编辑。如果您经常处理PDF(PDFs)、图像(Images)、AutoCAD 项目(Projects)、视频(Videos)和Office 文档(Office Document)文件，您可能会发现此功能很有用。或者，如果您在基于项目的文件上工作很多，如果您正在与某人合作，版本历史可以为您提供很多帮助。因为如果它们不适合，很容易恢复更改。
由于版本历史记录旨在保护您的文件免受不必要的意外更改，而不是实际记录其历史记录。OneDrive只会将旧版本的文件保留 30 天。之后，旧版本将被完全删除。
如何在OneDrive上使用(OneDrive)版本历史记录(Version History)
版本历史(Version History)是云存储提供商提供的最重要的功能。虽然 OneDrive 已经为Office文档提供了此功能，但它对所有文件类型的扩展绝对是一个很好的举措。Google Drive已提供此功能，您可以使用类似的步骤恢复到某个版本。
将文件恢复到早期版本非常简单。打开您的 OneDrive 帐户并导航到您要查找其版本的文件。
右键单击该文件并选择“版本历史记录(Version History)”以查看该文件的旧版本。现在您可以单击任何旧版本来查看或恢复它。建议在将旧版本恢复到实际位置之前查看旧版本。
除了修改日期和时间之外，还指定了进行更改的用户。这样您就可以通过切换到比他们的版本更早的版本来立即回滚用户所做的更改。
此功能已经开始推出，您可以很快在您的 OneDrive 帐户中使用此功能。在一篇博客文章中，Microsoft仅针对个人帐户(Personal Accounts)提到了此功能，并且没有关于OneDrive for Business的消息——但如果任何“OneDrive for Business”用户可以在下面的评论部分中确认它，我们将很高兴。
Using Version History on OneDrive for all File Types to recover files
Be it, developers, data scientists, photoshop experts, or Offісe users, Version Control or Version History is the most used and important feature these days. With the modern emphasis on work collaboration, you actually need to maintain different copies of different versions. So that you can switch back to a stage earlier in time if anything wrong happens. And since most of the collaboration happens in the cloud, a version history is a major feature offered by cloud storage providers.
If you’ve been a OneDrive user, you might have noticed that version history was already available for all the document files. You could easily go back in time and restore the documents from an earlier stage. But OneDrive recently announced that they’ve been extending this feature to support all file types. This not only makes it viable to use OneDrive for more purposes but also adds functionality to the existing version history feature.
OneDrive Version History restores old files
As the feature is now available for all the file types, you need not worry about your files being getting accidentally edited. You may find this feature useful if you deal a lot with PDFs, Images, AutoCAD Projects, Videos, and Office Document files. Or if you work a lot on project-based files, version history can help you a lot if you are collaborating with someone. As it will be easy to revert changes if they do not fit in.
Since version history is meant to protect your files from unwanted accidental changes and not to actually keep a record of its history. OneDrive will keep an older version of your file only for 30 days. And after that, the older version will be completely removed.
How to use Version History on OneDrive
Version History is the most important feature offered by a cloud storage provider. While OneDrive already had this feature in place for Office documents, its extension towards all file types is definitely a great move. Google Drive already offers this feature, and you can use similar steps to restore back to a version.
It is super simple to restore your files to an earlier version. Open up your OneDrive account and navigate to the file whose versions you are looking for.
Right-click the file and select ‘Version History’ to view older versions of that file. Now you can click on any of the older version to view or restore it. It is recommended to review the older version before restoring it to the actual location.
Apart from the modification date and time, the user who made the changes is also specified. So that you can instantly roll back changes made by a user by switching to a version earlier than their version.
This feature has already started rolling out and you can expect this feature anytime soon in your OneDrive account. In a blog post, Microsoft has mentioned this feature only for Personal Accounts and there is no news about OneDrive for Business – but we’d be glad if any ‘OneDrive for Business’ user can confirm about it in the comments section below.
