Automatic deletion of file versions

Traditionally we were taught to back up, back up, back up our files. Fortunately, with Google Apps, everything is backed up for us. The result can be a huge number of file versions, some of which may be safely deleted. Google Drive greatly simplifies version control, and to make more efficient use of the space in your Drive archive, Google has changed the default behavior

from "automatically save every file" to "automatically delete file versions more than a month old or that have over 100 revisions. This behavior can be changed for any file that you choose to keep multiple versions of. Fortunately, you are unlikely to run out of space as you may purchase up to 16 terabytes of Drive space! Here are instructions for changing these settings.