


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.
