about disc space & version control

Hi everyone,

I have a question regarding the disc space usage of version control

Given the following scenario how much disc space am I using?

- Assume an instance of SharePoint Portal Server 2003
- I create a document repository
- I add a new column called XYZ (type is unimportant)
- I upload a document of 30kb and set the attribute XYZ to "blue"
- I expect to now have 1 version under version control
- I now change the attribute XYZ to "green"
- I expect to now have 2 versions under version control

Am I now using 60kb or is SharePoint smart enough to know that I've not
modified the document and thus doesn't create a new copy?

Thanks!

Mike
Fri Nov 24 09:30:47 CST 2006

Presumably you mean a document library in the WSS part of SPS 2003 as you've
posted here rather than in .portalserver.

I imagine that it will give you two 30KB files as it would be a "change"
(new version) caused by a check-out and check-in. I doubt if it is any
smarter in your scenario

These will in the database be in any case greater than 30KB in size
(probably 50kb each or so).

Mike Walsh
WSS FAQ www.wssfaq.com / wss.collutions.com

"Thomas V" <thomas.vanparys@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a question regarding the disc space usage of version control
>
> Given the following scenario how much disc space am I using?
>
> - Assume an instance of SharePoint Portal Server 2003
> - I create a document repository
> - I add a new column called XYZ (type is unimportant)
> - I upload a document of 30kb and set the attribute XYZ to "blue"
> - I expect to now have 1 version under version control
> - I now change the attribute XYZ to "green"
> - I expect to now have 2 versions under version control
>
> Am I now using 60kb or is SharePoint smart enough to know that I've not
> modified the document and thus doesn't create a new copy?
>
> Thanks!
>