Hi All,
Thanks in advance for your help.
I by mistake took ownership of all files with no checked in version on a library. Now all the files are checked out to my name. I lost the details whom they were originally checked out to. All the files were checked out to different users. How can I restore their check out to their previous values prior to myself taking ownership.
I need to restore it back to their names whom they were originally checked out.
Please help before being caught to client.
Thanks,
Vignesh Natarajan
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Saratchandra Peddinti Answered question February 14, 2018
I know this is tool late. Even now there is no solution for this.
The issue is irreversible:
- You cannot revert the action
- Cannot check in without informing your client
- Cannot discard check out
Only choice is:
- You already took the ownership, so inform your client & check in the documents(Either UI or Code-possible as they are checked out to you)
- At this point, you are last ‘modified by’ user(Editor) where as the owner of the document is ‘created by’ user(Author)
- Once you checked in the documents(as in Step-1), update the ‘Modified By’ user to the ‘Created By’ user
- Better not to touch the ‘Modified’ time. Because, we never know how long the owner kept making changes to the files after uploading
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