Recycle Bin and Second Stage Recycle Bin

Have you ever accidentally deleted something in SharePoint?

Don’t panic! There is a recycling bin to restore deleted items.

Absolutely everything that is deleted in SharePoint will end up in the recycle bin. Whether it’s a page, file, list item, entire list or entire document library, it will end up in the recycle bin and you will be able to restore it.

https://yourdomain.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursite/_layouts/15/RecycleBin.aspx?view=5

You can access the recycle bin by going to the above URL, where yourdomain and yoursite are replaced with your domain and site name.

Here you will see everything that has been deleted from the SharePoint site including other user’s deleted items. This follows the SharePoint site access, so you will only see other user’s deleted items if you had access to them before they were deleted.

There is also a second stage recycle bin or admin recycle bin but you will need admin access to the site to use this.

Items that are deleted in the recycle bin will go to the admin recycle bin.

You can access the admin recycle bin from the regular recycle bin. Click on the link at the very bottom that says Second stage recycle bin.

Note items in the recycle bin and admin recycle bin have a maximum life of 90 days. After this they are gone permanently.