

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. 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. If you want to restore files for your own consumer Drive 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. If you want to restore deleted messages for your own consumer Gmail account, go to Delete or recover deleted Gmail messages, or to recover your own account, go to How to recover your Google account or Gmail. If you’re an admin looking to recover deleted Gmail messages for your users, go to Restore a user's permanently deleted email. This article is for administrators who want to recover deleted files in Google Drive.
