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LabelsRus
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Searching within deleted files

How do I search by file name in deleted files? When I use the search bar it searches not-deleted files, and as far as I can tell all I can do is sort deleted files by date range. I have no clue what ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    6 years ago
    Hi there, depending on your plan you could have recovery periods from 30 days to 120 days, and potentially longer if you purchased Extended Version History before the new plans came out.
     
    If you use the search bar, the deleted files will appear at the bottom of the list in grey, so you can check those grey files for the one you’re looking for.
     
    Hope this info helps!
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andi79
Helpful | Level 5
12 months ago

Deleted files aren't shown in search results at all anymore. Posts from 2019 mention them being shown in grey under the regular results, but now I get no results shown. No way to search deleted files.

 

Also, it's a bit silly having the search box at the top of the deleted files page, when it doesn't actually search that page.

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