Space usage in Sharepoint

[mcary@mortenson.com]

I've been running a sync copying files from a server's shared drive up to SharePoint & the files appear to be taking up too much space.

As I've been investigating the issue, it looks like every file copied up to SharePoint is showing 2 "versions" in it's history.

One version is created moments after the sync starts & the other version happens sometime before the sync completes. It's like Syncovery is creating a marker for the file in SharePoint at the beginning of the copy job and then going back and actually copying the data when it gets to that specific file.

The issue with this is that both versions are showing up in the Snapshot history & taking up space in our SharePoint account. With large syncs this wastes a lot of file space that Microsoft charges for.

Is there any way to prevent Syncovery from "pre-seeding" the files & only copy a file as it's ready?

[tobias]

Hello,
yes, this is normal Sharepoint behavior, but the latest Syncovery 10.14 (and some previous versions) will delete the first version so you will have only one.

The first version is created by the upload, and the second one by setting the original "Last Modified" date.

If it still occurs with the latest Syncovery version, please contact support@syncovery.com because we will need to look into detailed log files.