Microsoft SharePoint is a new online application that supports you and your team to create, store and share content on the web. With it, you can create pages, document libraries, and lists to share information across your company. You can add text, images, and documents to customize your content. It stores files on the cloud and anyone can securely work with you via a desktop or mobile app.
When you carelessly deleted or someone else removed a document in SharePoint, what can you do to bring back the lost documents?
Question: Can I recover a deleted, missing, or corrupted document file in SharePoint online?
Answer: Yes.
Read and follow through this page, we'll show you how to fully recover document in SharePoint from two respective angels:
Applies to: Recover deleted documents in SharePoint recycle bin online.
The deleted items in SharePoint or teams won't be immediately removed. The deleted items will be kept in the Recycle Bin for some time until it's emptied.
Here is the detailed process of how do I recover a deleted file from Share Point online. If you are currently looking for the deleted document in SharePoint, follow this guide to recover deleted files from SharePoint Recycle Bin:
Step 1. Open SharePoint
Step 2. Open Recycle Bin in SharePoint
Step 3. Recover Document in SharePoint Recycle Bin
Applies to: Recover deleted, missing, or corrupted document that was synced from SharePoint to computer.
Except for online sharing, another amazing feature of SharePoint is that all the added items, like text, images, documents like Excel, Document, PowerPoint, and more, can be synced to a local computer and a mobile phone.
In a word, you can both share files online via SharePoint and sync SharePoint file to a local computer. When you lost an online document, you can try to find it on your computer via reliable file recovery software.
1. Only synced SharePoint file which was deleted can be restored from the local PC.
2. Stop using the SharePoint folder or drive on the computer at once when a file was deleted or removed by mistake.
3. A corrupted Microsoft Document like Word, Excel, PPT, etc., can be repaired via reliable document recovery software.
Qiling file recovery software with its file repair feature ensures that you can recover and even repair a lost document file that was corrupted to a good state. With it, you can:
Here are the detailed steps:
Step 1. Choose file types and click "Next" to start
Run Deep Data Recovery. Choose file types and click "Next" to start.
Step 2. Choose the Word file location
Choose the drive or a specific folder and click the "Scan" button.
Step 3. Locate your Word files
The software will start immediately scanning all lost data on the selected drive. After the scan, click the "Documents" option in the left panel. Choose "Word" from the category bar. Then, click "Preview".
Step 4. Recover Word files
After previewing the lost Word files, select the desired Word files and click "Recover". Then, select a folder to store the Word files.
Stay calm when you deleted, lost, or removed a document in SharePoint Document Library. You have three ways for fixing this issue:
1. How Does SharePoint See Who Deleted Files?
If you are a Microsoft 365 SharePoint user, as long as you are running as an administrator, you have the privilege to check and view items that were deleted by other people.
How to see who deleted files in SharePoint:
2. Where Do the Restored SharePoint Files Go?
3. Where to Find Synced SharePoint Document on Computer?
When you synced the SharePoint file to the computer via OneDrive or other apps, the shared files will appear in File Explorer. It will generate a subfolder under the name of your organization in Windows or Mac Finder.