Use this app to try to recover lost files that have been deleted from your local storage device (including internal drives, external drives, and USB devices) and can’t be restored from the Recycle Bin.

Learn how to delete and restore files in OneDrive. Recover deleted files or folders from the OneDrive recycle bin.

If you can't find a file on your computer or you accidently modified or deleted a file, you can restore it from a backup (if you're using Windows backup) or you can try to restore it from a previous version. Previous versions are copies of files and folders that Windows automatically saves as part of a restore point.

Find the Recycle Bin. If your desktop shows no icons at all, right-click (or press and hold) the desktop and select View. If Show desktop icons has no checkmark, click it to add one. If that doesn't work, try this: Select Start > Settings > Personalization > Themes > Desktop icon settings.

If your entire library was deleted, see Restore items in the Recycle Bin of a SharePoint site. If you want to correct issues with individual files one at a time, you can restore deleted items or restore a previous version of an item. For files in OneDrive, you can restore your OneDrive.

While items are in the site recycle bin, you can restore items you deleted to their original location. If you're using SharePoint in Microsoft 365, you can even view and restore items that were deleted by someone else, as long as you have edit permissions.

Learn how to recover missing, deleted or corrupted items in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

When you delete an item from a SharePoint document library or list, it isn’t immediately removed from SharePoint. Deleted items go into the site Recycle Bin for a period of time. During that time, you can restore the items you deleted to their original location, or remove them to free up storage space.

Items that have been deleted from a SharePoint in Microsoft 365 site Recycle Bin are kept in the site collection Recycle Bin (or second-stage Recycle Bin). If you're a site collection administrator, you can permanently remove these items by deleting them from the site collection Recycle Bin.

With version history, you can see and restore older versions of your files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint. Version history works with all file types, including Microsoft 365 files, PDFs, CAD files, photos, videos, and more.