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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25 comments
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Anonymous
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I'm a complete novice, but I search the recycle bin by "Date Deleted" and have never failed to find the file I want. Just make sure you have the "Date Deleted" column showing and click on the small down arrow to the right of the Date Deleted title, and a calendar drop-down window will appear allowing you to search deleted files and folders by date.
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Anonymous
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Not only recycle bins, also any folder to search is a painful affair. Even not able to reach to file name starting alphabet available. Please add
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Anonymous
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Absolutely! This is pathetically slow.
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Rufus
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It is very painful to find a file in the recycle bin. Ideally, we should be able to search by name (partial or full) or date range, at least. Then be able to recover from the search results. I just spent about 30 minutes looking for a file, scrolling until I finally found it.
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Pat
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Search actually finds files in the Recycle bin very efficiently, but you can't restore the files from the Search window. I can see the files I want to restore in a second. I can select the files I want to restore, but selecting them doesn't bring up "restore" as an option. I can't restore unless I select the files from the Recycle bin view, which doesn't show the full filename and takes forever to scroll through.
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Anonymous
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I accidently deleted my OneNote notebook, which is going to be insanely difficult to recover.
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Anonymous
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Yes, please add a search option. Scrolling through 80,000 files is literally impossible
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Anonymous
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Madness that this isn't possible.
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Anonymous
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Search function for recycle bin
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Chris
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Ridiculous that this isn't an option.
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Anonymous
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What are you guys doing, does anyone at Microsoft actually use OneDrive? I just deleted a large folder and even if I find the name of the folder in Recycle Bin, it just restores an empty folder.
We need an option to search the Recycle Bin, just just scroll down an insanely long list of files
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Cyril V Darmouni
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insane not to have a search
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Joe G
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Wow, how is this still not addressed. I just did a massive purge, and because one of my shared spreadsheets had 20 versions, I have to go find it by scrolling through 2 million files I recently deleted. Not having a search in Recycle Bin is much needed.
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Eric
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Has this still not been addressed by someone with Microsoft? Seems like a relatively simple fix. C'mon folks!
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David Wright
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Why can't the recycle bin be sorted by column like any other list?
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lars K
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And spring 2018 it's still the same, no action what so ever from Redmond.
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Anonymous
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So, it's not just me then. I have some 20000 files in the RB, which I don't need to be there. A simple spreasheet that I accidentally deleted yesterday is impossible to find. I thought the 'by date deleted' and 'by directory structure' search options were somewhere, but they simply don't exist
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Rob Nicholson
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I've just posted something similar myself on here (hint - allow one to sort search results on uservoice by popularity). Attempting to use the recycle bin for anything except a couple of recently deleted files is painful. In fact, most users simply give up. A search/filter with date range would be a start.
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Sean Taylor commented
Agreed add search. At first I spent forever scrolling through files unsuccessfully. I then discovered I could switch to classic OneDrive (bottom left) and it had sort by file size in the Recycle Bin area. The file I wanted was large, got it on the second page.
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Ryan
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yes please, still scrolling back through thousands of files trying to find the one I want.
