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Manage the Recycle Bin in Lightning Experience

Manage the Recycle Bin in Lightning Experience

As an admin, you have access to your own Recycle Bin and the Salesforce org’s Recycle Bin. You can view, restore, and permanently delete records in the Org Recycle Bin and your own Recycle Bin. Use list view functionality to sort and filter to find the records you need.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Group, Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
User Permissions Needed
To view and restore your deleted records: Read on the records in the Recycle Bin
To view and restore records deleted by other users: Modify All Data
To restore deleted public tags: Tag Manager
To delete records in the Recycle Bin permanently: Modify All Data

Records in the Recycle Bin don’t count against your Salesforce org’s storage usage. There isn’t a limit on the number of deleted records that the Recycle Bin can hold.

Deleted items remain in the Recycle Bin for 15 days, and during that time users can restore them. After 15 days, Salesforce schedules these items for permanent deletion from the Recycle Bin. Salesforce doesn’t guarantee the exact time that the Recycle Bin permanently deletes these items.

  1. To access the Recycle Bin, from the App Launcher, find and select it, or add it to your navigation bar. Or, add the Recycle Bin tab for your org in the Lightning App Builder.
    The Recycle Bin with the Org Recycle Bin selected
  2. Select the Recycle Bin that you want to access (1).
    The Recycle Bin with the List Views menu
  3. Select the items you want to restore or permanently delete, and click Restore (2) or Delete (3).
  4. To delete all items in the Org Recycle Bin permanently, click Empty Org Recycle Bin (4). Then confirm that you want to empty the Recycle Bin.
    Note
    Note You can have only one empty process running at a time. The processing time varies depending on the number of records there are in your org’s Recycle Bin. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter View Setup Audit Trail, and then select View Setup Audit Trail to check the status of completed empty processes.
 
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