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Iron Contributor

Oct 27, 2017

Empty Recycle Bin automatically

Is there a way to empty automatically the recycle bin of a certain user ? for instance empty the bin every 24 hours ? unfortunately i found only this "request" from 2015 :( https://onedrive.use...

office 365

OneDrive for Business

Thomas Pallisgaard Iversen

Copper Contributor

Oct 27, 2017

Hi Stefan,

If you are running Windows 10 maybe this could do the trick for you....?

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-empty-recycle-bin-automatically-schedule-windows-10

StefanFried

Iron Contributor

Oct 27, 2017

thanks thomas

in my case this doesn't help at all. :)

i'm performing a user simulation against my cloud tenant.

one of the simulation is for instance targeting onedrive (uploading file - deleting, etc..)
whenever i'm done with the simulation, i would like to empty the bin automatically so that i don't end up with hundreds of of files in the trash. (the 90days period is too long)

i was just thinking if there is a way via user policies (e.g empty trash after 24h for this particular user account).....but even this does not exist for onedrive :((

i'm wondering why MS does not provide such simple function to their customer base

i hope that i just simply miss something here :)

jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Oct 28, 2017
Short answer, as you might wornder, is No...so you can cook yourself the automatism to empty user's recycle bin using SPO APIs (CSOM / REST)