Empty Recycle Bin automatically

Steel Contributor

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.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/suggestions/10197672-automatically-empty-the-r...

 

via policy ? via API ?

..please NOT via powershell cmdlet! :)

 

thanks

3 Replies

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

 

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 :)

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)