If your OneDrive files get deleted, overwritten, corrupted, or infected by malware, you might be able to restore files or folders by using one of the options listed in this article.
Microsoft 365 subscribers can also restore a previous version of a file and use the restore your entire OneDrive feature to roll back everything, reverting all changes that occurred on any files and folders, to any point in the last 30 days.
Note
- For personal accounts, you can restore files or folders deleted within the last 30 days. For work or school accounts, you can restore files or folders deleted within the last 93 days, unless your administrator changed the retention setting.
- You can only restore files or folders that were located in your own OneDrive, not files that someone else shared with you.
- You can't restore files or folders after they've been permanently deleted from the OneDrive recycle bin.
Restore files or folders from the OneDrive website recycle bin
Go to onedrive.com, and sign in with either your Microsoft account or your work or school account.
In the navigation pane, select Recycle bin.
Select the files or folders you want to restore by pointing to each item and selecting the circle check box, and then select Restore.
Tip
Use the Show Personal Vault items command in the recycle bin to see files deleted from your Personal Vault.
), don't appear in your computer's Recycle Bin or Trash. You might be able to restore the deleted files or folders from the OneDrive or SharePoint web recycle bin.
in the upper left of your screen, select the account, and then tap Recycle Bin.
.See also
Restore a previous version of a file in OneDrive
Restore items deleted from SharePoint or Teams or a SharePoint site collection recycle bin
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