Forum Discussion
What happens to Files on Sharepoint for user who has left the company
Hi everyone, I have a SharePoint site in my company and I have been working on it with a colleague. My colleague has suddenly left the company, his user PID has been suspended and after 30 days ...
The way you stated your request is all but confusing :p. IF files are uploaded they will stay. IF he has local files on his computer that were not uploaded then yeah those will go away with the hard disk of the device he had.
If you are talking about him having a onedrive account synced to his computer, and moving files to SharePoint, then yes after 30 days that account will be deleted along with the files unless preservation policies were applied.
Anyway, need to verify the scenario a bit where these files are located. If they are in SharePoint then they are fine, nothing will happen as Juan said. But if they are local only, they never existed on SharePoint so the account being deleted will have no effect. You can access these files on the hard disk itself for however long the device works 😛 assuming it's not encrypted :P.
If you are talking about him having a onedrive account synced to his computer, and moving files to SharePoint, then yes after 30 days that account will be deleted along with the files unless preservation policies were applied.
Anyway, need to verify the scenario a bit where these files are located. If they are in SharePoint then they are fine, nothing will happen as Juan said. But if they are local only, they never existed on SharePoint so the account being deleted will have no effect. You can access these files on the hard disk itself for however long the device works 😛 assuming it's not encrypted :P.