Change file content without creating a new version

[nob-b3]

What version of PnPjs library you are using

4.x

Minor Version Number

4.0.0

Target environment

All

Additional environment details

-

Question/Request

I'm using a document list with files where versioning is enabled. Now i want to change the content of the file without creating a new version.

The content update works with the setContent/setContentChunked methods (https://pnp.github.io/pnpjs/sp/files/#update-file-content), but those are creating a new version. Is this also possible without creating a new version?

In my research (on google) i only found ways to update the FileItem without a version change but not the file itself.

[patrick-rodgers]

Correct, if versioning is turned on, creating a new version of the document creates a new version in the library. If you'd like to not have versions you can always turn off versioning.

[nob-b3]

@patrick-rodgers The problem is, we need to make changes on the file exif data (in the file itself), but the end user should not see, that we've made such a change to a file. So we want to have versions but we also want to be able to change the file content without creating a new version.

Isn't there a possibility with pnp or with a plain call to the REST API or with CSOM?

Thank you in advance.

[patrick-rodgers]

There is not a capability in this library to make updates that does not create another version.

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