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MartinSharepoint
Copper Contributor
Mar 11, 2021

Sharepoint recycle bin

Hi,

 

I've set up a number of groups (eg. Administration, HR, Finance, Senior Management Team, Teachers, etc) on the site to control the permission level site-wide and for particular document libraries. In terms of site wide permissions, most groups have restricted view permission level. It's within a particular document libraries that they are given 'Read' or 'Contribute' or none permissions depending on the department. The problem is, what I think happens in the recycle bin is, that a user who belongs to, for example, 'Administration' and 'Management' groups will be able to see the files deleted from all the places that users from both groups can access regardless who created/deleted them.

Is it not possible to change the behaviour so that each user (apart from the owners of the site) can only see (in the recycle bin) the files that they've deleted?

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  • Andrew Hodges's avatar
    Andrew Hodges
    Bronze Contributor

    MartinSharepoint 

     

    Its not possible I am afraid. The default now is that a user sees all files in the site collection that they had access to at point of deletion, regardless of who created, modified or deleted the content. 

    • MartinSharepoint's avatar
      MartinSharepoint
      Copper Contributor

      Andrew Hodges 

      OK. Thanks for your reply. Is it possible though to hide the Recycle bin or the whole Site Contents link for users (apart from site owners)?

      • Andrew Hodges's avatar
        Andrew Hodges
        Bronze Contributor
        No its not possible to do that. I have been asked about that before too.

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