

A Vault user can search for retained data and export it. You might be able to retrieve data older than 25 days if it was subject to retention rules or holds. For details, go to Restore deleted shared drives or their files. You can restore data to a shared drive or restore a deleted shared drive. Note: After you restore an item in Drive, the user needs to reshare the item for others to have access. The data is restored to the user's Drive folder in the same location as before it was deleted. Under Application, click the Down arrow Drive.Īfter the restoration project is done, check the user's Drive folder for restored Drive data.You can only restore data that was deleted within the last 25 days. Select the date range for the data that you want to restore.Point to the user and click More options Restore data.Find the user who needs their Drive data restored.Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in In the Admin console, go to Menu Directory Users. Before you begin the restoration, ask the user when they removed the file or folder, so you can restore the least amount of data necessary. You can’t restore individual files or folders. The restoration recovers all files removed during the selected date range. Data for the user who met their Drive storage quota.Data that Google permanently deleted more than 25 days ago.If you start another project while the first is in progress, one of them stops. You can only have one restoration project running at a time. In these cases, the Drive audit log shows Google System as the user who deleted the item. If an item is in the trash for more than 30 days, Drive automatically deletes it. Your Drive audit log shows the name of the user and when they emptied their trash. When a user empties their trash, they delete any files or folders that were in it from Drive. For details, go to Restore a deleted user's Drive files. If the user's account was deleted and you want to recover their Drive files, you can restore their files within 20 days of the account deletion. Depending on the amount of data that you want to restore, it might take several days for the data to reappear in the user’s account. After that period, Google purges the data from its systems.

To restore files for your own account, go to Find or recover a file.Īs an administrator, you can recover deleted items from Google Drive within 25 days after a user empties their trash. This article is for administrators who want to recover files permanently deleted by users from Google Drive.
