Salesforce administrators can determine who deleted a record by looking at the Recycle Bin or querying for deleted records via API.
The 'Deleted By' column will indicate which User deleted the record. If the record doesn't exist, you may still view the record via API before Salesforce permanently deletes the record.
If the record doesn't exist in Recycle Bin, you'll need to log into Data Loader.
| Note: Use of the Data Loader requires your Organization to be API enabled (Enterprise Edition and above by default). See Enable the Analytics REST API for more details. Or consider the potential use of an alternative tool as outlined below, for more details. |
For Professional Edition or below, you may be able to leverage Dataloader.io to query for records that are no longer in the Recycle Bin.
Note: Dataloader.io limits exports to 10,000 records per query in batch mode, so you may need to narrow down your search at step 4.
For Dataloader.io support, please see Support for Dataloader.io.
See also:
Recover or restore lost or deleted records and data
Records Updated or Deleted Unexpectedly
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