Feb 16 2018 08:42 AM
what is the trick for finding specific files in SPO recycle bin? we can only sort by title and date deleted, there is no filtering and when there are thousands of files, it is an endless scroll which is unusable.
Jul 09 2018 01:47 PM
Nov 16 2018 04:30 AM
I've found this UNTESTED and (relativelly) old powershell script search option, that we'll explore in our team. http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2016/07/sharepoint-online-search-recycle-bin-using-powershell.html
As recycleBin is now the only Back Up management mechanism in SPO, it is almost indispensable to make it more efficient. At the moment it works that's it. Good search / filtering mechanism would make it great.
We had an incident where a user misunderstanding onedrive synchronisation just deleted ~7000 files from his synced folders (Sharepoint). Was hell to find all these mistakenly deleted files (as other files were also rightfully deletes in the middle).
Apr 25 2019 02:50 AM
Did someone find out how you can select files from the recycle bin to remove (filter on user, sort on file size etc.) @Dean_Gross
May 16 2019 01:38 PM
@Dean_Gross You can use PowerShell to export the recycle bin items to a csv file and use excel to filter on dates, users, etc.
All you need to do is install the SharePoint PNP Powershell module and run the following:
Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://<sitecollectionurl/
Get-PnPRecycleBinItem -firstStage | export-csv <filepath>
May 17 2019 02:45 AM
@JSleithanks for the suggestion, that will help the SPO admins, but it won't help the site owners who can't use POSH. Microsoft still needs to address this basic level of functionality in the UI.
May 17 2019 02:59 AM
https://lazyadmin.nl/powershell/restore-recycle-bin-sharepoint-online-with-powershell/amp/
and you also also filter by directory name :
$_.DirNAme -match "sites/…."
May 17 2019 07:14 AM
@Eric LE CORRE thanks for the additional suggestion, but this won't help the site owner who is trying to find a file that was deleted. Site owners are empowered to do almost everything, they should not have to open a support ticket with their Help Desk to do something this simple
Jul 10 2019 07:16 AM
Agreed this functionality needs to be accessible to Site Collection Admins. Please add to top priority
Oct 12 2020 03:47 AM
Can we run a similar command to export the items from the Second Stage recycle bin of a users' OneDrive recycle bin? Also do you know if we can run a Flow that checks for items in a users OneDrive Second Stage recycle bin?
Oct 12 2020 11:30 AM
@csesti-Jabil you can use the same command with the Second Stage switch
Get-PnPRecycleBinItem -SecondStage
Feb 28 2022 10:21 PM
@Dean_Gross you can try to this this tool Release spoqa1.22.02.25 · abrcheng/SharePointOnlineQuickAssist (github.com)
Feb 28 2023 04:17 AM
@Dean_Gross you wrote this in 2018 and as a new sharepoint user I am shocked that the recycle bin remains just as unusable and unsearchable as before...
Mar 03 2023 05:57 AM - edited Mar 03 2023 05:58 AM
Apr 19 2023 04:06 AM
I'm not sure how it is in other companies but many people in our one are not super tech-savvy and your solution in practise, even if simple for you, might be overly complicated. How about just making general search feature working?
Apr 21 2023 05:04 AM
@Joyce-2002 thanks. It’s things like this that don’t make any sense and make us want to go back to Dropbox. How do you design a data and work collaboration software and make it impossible to filter or search in the recycle bin??
Aug 10 2023 08:18 AM
Aug 10 2023 08:41 AM
Aug 10 2023 08:43 AM
Lucky you, I have probably gigabytes of data to browse through. Scrolling to the bottom would take me at least half a day...