Saturday, 28 April 2012

All about Recycle bin in SharePoint Online


A the title says the post is All about Recycle bin in SharePoint Online. Recycle bin becomes a very important component when you delete a document in your SharePoint Online site. Lets look at various Recycle Bin's and options to recover documents, items, pages, sites and site collections that were deleted by the user.

Breif Summary - When a user deletes a document it goes into first stage Recycle Bin or user's Recycle Bin. When a document gets deleted from user's Recycle Bin it goes into second stage Recycle Bin, also known as Site Collection Level Recycle Bin. Once a user deletes a document from Site collection Bin it gets permanetly removed from the site.
The case of deleting Site collection however is a bit different, SharePoint provides an additional third layer Recycle bin i.e "SharePoint Administration Center Recycle Bin" which will save any site colletcion deleted by administrator for 30 days, only in Enterprise plans.

Before we begin here are the following data types are captured by the Recycle Bin:
  • Site Collections
  • Sites
  • Lists
  • Libraries
  • Folders
  • List items
  • Documents
  • Web Part pages
and the following data types are not captured by the Recycle Bin:
  • Site customizations made through SharePoint Designer 2010
 Lets go in-depth into the Recycle bins.

1. User Recycle bin - According to this post,here are some basic features that you need to know -

* Accessible from the "Recycle Bin" link on the Quick Launch bar at the top level or sub site level.
* Available to you if you have Contribute, Design, or Full Control Permissions.
* When you delete an documnet or item in the list/library it gets moved to the User recycle bin. It stays there until it is either deleted by you, another user with permissions or automatically deleted after 30 days.
* You can restore the item from the recycle bin or permanently delete the item from the recycle bin.
* Items located in this bin counts towards the Site Collection Quota.For ecxamoke if you delete a document of 1Gb and it sits in your User Recycle bin, it will not free up the space that is alloted to your site unless it is permanently deleted.

Next we will look at Site Collection Level Recycle Bin and "SharePoint Administration Center Recycle Bin" >>

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