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When all else fails, your cloud service should list a solution in their support section. Of course, we realize there are quite a few other cloud storage services out there, but this should give you a better idea of how those might allow you to restore or permanently delete files. This length of time will change to 60 days effective Wednesday, Oct. Once a file or folder has been removed, it will remain in the Trash area until deleted or until those 30 days have passed. Accidents happen, so it’s good to know they can be undone if necessary. Google Drive currently keeps trashed items for 30 days. If you make the mistake of removing data from a local cloud folder without first unsyncing it, then it will be removed from the cloud server and all the attached clients. It’s easy to sometimes lose data even when you’re going to pains not to. You can “Restore” these files, “Delete” them, view their “Properties,” and finally you can clear the selection to start over. On the other hand, if you want to restore or delete certain files, you would check the ones you want and then then your action options will change.

If you wanted at this point to restore them all, you could click “Restore all items” and if you want to permanently delete them all, click “Empty recycle bin.” Once you’ve opened the recycle bin, again you may be a little surprised at just how many files you thought were gone, are still hanging around. The recycle bin is found in the bottom-left corner of the navigation pane. You can delete a file from anywhere on your Drive though it will be technically moved to the Trash. Google Drive sports a much more conventional method of deleting files: Trash. While you may never need to take advantage of Dropbox’s versioning powers, they do come in handy for those rare times when you overwrite a file and want to revert to an older version. If there are other versions to view, you can do that before you commit.ĭropbox will keep unlimited versions of your files for up to 30 days, or with Extended Version History, up to one year.

When you are ready to restore a file, Dropbox will prompt you with a dialog. To restore the file or files, click “Restore…” Obviously then, to permanently delete them, you can choose “Permanently delete…” or view and restore “Previous versions” of that file (if they are any). Alternatively, you can right-click and then choose “show deleted files” from the resulting menu.Įither way, your deleted files will appear in gray and when you select one or several of them, you can right-click once again for further options.