Recover a deleted file
Places to look when a file is gone.
- Open the Recycle Bin on your desktop. Right-click the file and choose Restore.
- If the file was in OneDrive, open OneDrive in your browser and select Recycle bin. See Use Microsoft 365 in your web browser if you need help getting there. Select the file and choose Restore.
- For a team folder in SharePoint, open the site and look in its Recycle bin too.
Good to know
OneDrive usually keeps deleted files for 93 days for work accounts, unless your business changed the setting. The sooner you look, the better.
If the file is there but its contents are wrong, see Restore an earlier version of a file. If you still cannot find it, tell us what the file was called, where it lived and when you last saw it. Recovery depends on how your files are stored, and we cannot promise that every file can be brought back.