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One Drive File Owner leaving company- need to keep their files
Hi, I work at a school where the current admin is leaving, and I am taking over. She has made me an owner of all of her files in addition to herself. When she leaves, her profile and every file ass...
- You have 30 days grace period after the user is deleted, as default. Read here for details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/retention-and-deletion
You can always copy the documents to another location, or keep the user license to prevent the deletion.
There is a setting in OneDrive Admin to retain onedrive files for set number of days. We have this set to 7 years, but if it's data you need long term you would want to move it eventually, but you can set this retention up and you will retain access to the OneDrive site / files and they will be protected for that number of days.
Thank you Chris! I appreciate it!