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Make it easier to search for files in the recycle bin. Right now there is no way to search the recycle bin other than scrolling down.

There is currently no way to efficiently search the recycle bin. The only option is to just scroll down. If you have a large amount of files in the recycle bin like I do, it is sometimes next to impossible to restore the file I am looking for. Another thing is you cannot open folders that are in the recycle bin. So if I am looking for a file in a folder I have to restore the whole folder to get to the file.

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GeMarr shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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We’re thinking about this for our future planning but don’t have specifics to share yet.

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  • josh commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    GARBAGE SERVICE. MAKE THIS USEABLE. Same issue. Deleted a high level folder and can't restore it

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I deleted a high level folder with many thousands of files. I am going to be scrolling until the end of the century before I can find the ones I need to undelete. I can't just restore all items as that would overwrite another set of folders with highly dynamic content. I can't even sort by "Date Deleted"

    I also note that despite my region settings all being DD-MM-YYYY, the recycle bin has US date format MM-DD-YYYY.

    How is this different from me being able to search my Gmail recycle bin? Other than none of the above being broken?

  • Frank commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thinking about this? It's 2020. Get bent. I have hundreds of thousands of files blocking the way of retrieving a deleted file. A simple search and I could restore. I'm cancelling and no longer recommending OneDrive. This is ludicrous. It's 2020!!!

  • Fabian Linnebacer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    That they're thinking about it seems nice, but does not help anyway. We have a huge Amount of files (about 180k) and someone in our organization made mistakes in a specific folder. Acually we need to scroll through everything in our recycle to find it manually... Altough they have a column "origin location".... We just need to filter for that location...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is the OneDrive Recycle Bin based on Windows or Unix? If it is based on Windows I can understand why it is not searchable, but if based on Unix, there is no excuse. Any good cloud storage offers full-text indexing and search capabilities. Please get this working soon. Five years with an opaque recycle bin is long enough. It is not even browseable by size or file type trees. It is a flat list. How lame.

  • Haris Ballis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Don't wonder why people don't like OneDrive. I hate being the one complaining but this functionality is essential. It's been 5 years since the original post and you are still thinking about it? Like it's not a a good idea?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is crazy and unprofessional, how come you can offer a service like a cloud storage and we cannot search in the recycle bin? days ago i deleted few files and i cannot find them...c'mon be serious.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    A simple search for the recycle bin like in file explorer is essential. Why is that not included? I expect an answer to this question here.

  • John Anderson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Even if the recycle bin was arranged in files in directories rather than every single file in the same incredible large 100s of pages recycle bin.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is so important, and the lack of any search tools for the recycle bin is infuriating. Can you think of a more important directory to be able to search?

  • dB commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please fix all the search related issues raised in this User Forum. OD search needs a complete overhaul.

  • JL commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Restore feature on onedrive should also have this feature. I want to find something from a specific time on a day when lots of files were deleted. instead I have to scroll through thousands of files from 'now' until the date-time of deletion, impossible.

  • JP commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    the simplest thing would be to do what Dropbox and every other cloud system does. Allow people to view deleted files in the folders themselves. Meaning, I'm in the folder, and in DB I right click and am able to view previously deleted files. That way they're right there in the location that I last remember seeing them. Now, as others have mentioned, you have to scroll through an interminable number of files to find what you're looking for.

  • Gianluca commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In the classic view there is a search tool. This can help only if you know exactly the name of the document/folder that was deleted.
    It would be great to have a couple of filters set up (i.e. deletion date, library, etc.).
    Thanks

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