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Microsoft 365 groups 2nd stage recycle bin
One of my clients has run out of SharePoint storage (hence the reason for asking here) in their new tenant. This is because we migrated an existing Dropbox system in it's entirety into a Microsoft 365 group/SharePoint document library. We then copied folders far and wide into a series of smaller Microsoft 365 groups. Small company, 20 users, they get 1.3TB of storage.
I've deleted over 250GB out of the Dropbox copy document library so OneDrive/TreeSize now reports the size is 214GB but SharePoint is still reporting the original size of 563GB. I've gone into the M365 group and emptied the recycle bin for that group.
But I was aware of the 2nd stage recycle bin but I don't seem to be able to find such a thing for the Microsoft 365 group. I can find it for the root SharePoint site collection.
Do Microsoft 365 groups/sites have a 2nd stage recycle bin and if so, how do you find it? I've looked high and low.
- Hello,
Please have a look at this where it guides you to the 2nd stage recycle bin https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restore-deleted-items-from-the-site-collection-recycle-bin-5fa924ee-16d7-487b-9a0a-021b9062d14b
The text to take you to the 2nd stage is small but it is there
- Hello,
Please have a look at this where it guides you to the 2nd stage recycle bin https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restore-deleted-items-from-the-site-collection-recycle-bin-5fa924ee-16d7-487b-9a0a-021b9062d14b
The text to take you to the 2nd stage is small but it is thereThanks Andreas. The answer to my question about M365 groups and 2nd stage recycle bin is that yes, they do have them. The reason I couldn't see it for the specific group I was looking at was probably because there was nothing in the 2nd stage recycle bin at that point 🙂 The link above is spot on in finding it.
One bit of feedback here is that if the 1st stage recycle bin has lots of items in it, getting to the bottom of the list is nigh on impossible! Bit like whack a mole 😉 You scroll down and you see the link below but then is disappears as next rows are dynamically displayed.
- Supplemental question - does the recycle bin could towards one's SharePoint storage quota?
