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GraceLilley
Copper Contributor
Feb 10, 2021

Can you recover deleted responses on Microsoft Forms?

I have duplicated a form to edit and the responses from the original form were copied over. I have then deleted the responses off the new form and didn't realise this would delete the responses on the old form. Is there any way of restoring the responses?

  • clintjames's avatar
    clintjames
    Copper Contributor

    GraceLilley 

    I would like to add my vote to this link, especially since the MS website says that the responses are NOT deleted when you copy a form. That really should be clarified. Fortunately in my case my results have all been downloaded to Excel and are safe and sound on our servers. 

  • RobElliott's avatar
    RobElliott
    Silver Contributor

    GraceLilley unfortunately there is no way to recover deleted responses. It's one of the reasons that at my company we always use a flow in Power Automate to save responses to a SharePoint list as backup. There is a Forms uservoice request for recovering deleted responses which you can vote for here.

     

    Rob
    Los Gallardos
    Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

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