Activate Your Refreshed Sandbox
If you didn’t select Auto Activate while refreshing your sandbox, you must activate your sandbox before you can use it.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Database.com Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To view a sandbox: | View Setup and Configuration |
| To create, refresh, activate, and delete a sandbox: | Manage Dev Sandboxes (Developer or Developer Pro only) or Manage Sandboxes (all sandbox types) |
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From Setup, enter Sandboxes in the Quick
Find box, then select Sandboxes
A list of your sandboxes displays. Refreshed sandboxes that haven’t been activated yet show an Activate link next to their name.
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Click Activate next to the sandbox you want to activate.
WarningActivating a replacement sandbox that was created using the Refresh link deletes the sandbox it is refreshing. The current configuration and data are erased, including application or data changes that you’ve made. Click the Activate link only if you don’t need the current contents of the sandbox. Your production org and its data aren’t affected.
Salesforce deletes new sandboxes that aren’t activated within 30 days. Users who created or most recently refreshed any sandboxes for your org receive at least two email notifications before Salesforce schedules the sandbox for deletion.
