SP2010 Document Set Versioning Issue

Document set versioning doesn’t persist copies of the documents contained within that set, so if you delete a document, you can’t restore it through the document set version history.

Here are the steps I took to demonstrate this:

1. Create a document library and allow the Document Set content type to be used

2. Turn versioning on (major versioning)

3. Upload some documents to the document set

4. Capture a version of the document set:

5. View the version history at this point:

a. You can see 3 documents as part of this document set

6. Delete a document (in this example I deleted Research.docx)

7. Capture a version of the document set

8. View the version history:

a. The Research.docx document can’t be found!  You don’t even see the name of the document that was removed...

9. If I try to restore this previous version I get the following error: