Restore Deleted Files in SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive - Recycle Bin

When you delete something from theCATalogue/SharePoint or OneDrive, it doesn't disappear into the big unknown straight away - it spends 93 days in the recycle bin - purgatory before the final banishment...*

(* we also have backups in a separate location, so even after 93 days, there is hope! Contact support@catrust.co.uk)

From theCATalogue/SharePoint

From Teams

From your own OneDrive

Restore items from the recycle bin in SharePoint

Microsoft Instructions

• Go to the SharePoint site that the items were deleted from.
• In the top right corner, click Settings , and then click Site contents.
• The recycle bin is in the top right portion of the Site Contents page.

• On the Recycle bin page, click the box to the left of the items or files you want to restore.

• Click Restore.
• When an item is restored, it is restored to the same location that it was deleted from. 

Restore items from the recycle bin of Teams

• In Microsoft Teams, from the Files tab at the top of your channel, select ... > Open in SharePoint.

• In the top right corner, click Settings , and then click Site contents.
• The recycle bin is in the top right portion of the Site Contents page.

  

  • On the Recycle bin page, click the box to the left of the items or files you want to restore.

  

  • Click Restore.
  • When an item is restored, it is restored to the same location that it was deleted from. 

   

Restore deleted files or folders in OneDrive

• Go to your OneDrive in Chrome, Edge or Safari

• In the navigation pane, select Recycle bin.

• Select the files or folders you want to restore by pointing to each item and clicking the circle check box that appears, and then click Restore.

For more information, see this Microsoft article