Thanks Jon. I have to admit it came a quite a pleasant surprise. I also noticed that it seems dependent upon using the same list. When I copied the items to a new library and reinstated the content types, the metadata was not restored for non-Office documents.
It would be good to have a clear picture of exactly what is retained, where and what the dependencies are. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Bullen Sent: Tuesday, 8 December 2009 7:49 PM To: ozMOSS Subject: RE: Question about custom metadata Yep, SharePoint will not delete content when you remove a column from a list. It is still stored in the Database, that way you can do updates to columns without loss of data. Jon Bullen | Senior Consultant | Microsoft Services [cid:[email protected]] È +61 41 048 0197 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.microsoft.com.au/services<http://www.microsoft.com.au/services> Please consider the environmental impact before printing this email. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Tuesday, 8 December 2009 11:25 AM To: ozMOSS Subject: Question about custom metadata Hi all, I recently had to perform a content type update on a number of large document libraries. In preparation for this I diligently created a view with all columns, opened it in Datasheet view and copied out the metadata for pasting back later. I then changed all documents to use the default Document content type; and deleted the custom content types and columns from the library. After updating and reactivating my CT feature I added them back to the list and then changed all documents to use the custom CT again. What I didn't expect to see was that all the custom metadata was still intact - and I'm not talking about Office Documents here. PDFs, images, emails, text files. You name it. Despite the wasted effort in trying to preserve this data I remain both very pleased and very confused by this revelation. Does anyone have any idea how this is possible? Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney
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