CRITICAL SHAREPOINT ISSUES! ATTENTION MICROSOFT!

Had something similar occur about a week ago.

the other week i discovered by chance some odd deletions of both word docs and pdfs from my dms that i store in SP. From random folders in SharePoint.

No pattern to them other than an entire folder with four files that I had worked on recently. That’s the only reason I found out about the deletions: I had gone back to continue working on one of the documents.

They weren’t in the local deleted bin because I clear that every few days 😊

First when MS tech and I looked nothing in the SharePoint recycle bins either. (there is a primary one w 90 day retention, then a secondary one).

The tech could see the deletions by me in the SP activity logs.

Most of them were done late one night first week of Nov and all within a couple of minutes of each. Random folders. Many of which I hadn’t touched in several years.

Too many too quickly to have been deleted manually.

I have a third party cloud backup of all Office 365 plus “litigation indefinite retention” so if I’m able to identify the missing files I can restore them. That’s a big “if”.

Even weirder is that two days later the SP recycle bin showed a bunch of deleted files including the specific ones I immediately needed.

i have ten year retention policy  with "no action" when max period reached, and litigation retention so I'm not so concerned about losing the docs. But not knowing what got or gets deleted is scary.

I've enabled notifications in daily summary of all deletions  to monitor to see if it recurrs.