Need to access file from a year ago

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Need to access file from a year ago

Nicolette Tarulli 0

Hi,

I need access to the transcript from an interview from a team meeting from 2025. It no longer is letting me access the document? Can it be recovered?

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Anonymous

Hi Nicolette Tarulli

To better understand the issue, could you please provide a bit more information?

-Are you the organizer of the meeting?

-What happens when you try to access the transcript? Do you receive an error message? If so, please share a screenshot of the error message. You can send the screenshot via private message to avoid exposing any personal or organizational information.

If the transcript is no longer accessible because it has expired or has been deleted, you may want to contact your IT administrator to check whether your organization has configured an expiration policy for Teams meeting recordings and transcripts.

According to Microsoft, when recordings or transcripts expire, they are moved to the OneDrive or SharePoint Recycle Bin, depending on the meeting type, and may be recoverable before they are permanently removed.

You can find more information here: Manage Teams recording expiration policy - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn

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Anonymous

2026-07-28T04:01:11.0833333+00:00

Hi Nicolette Tarulli

Thank you for the update and for sharing the screenshot.

Since you are the meeting organizer, it may also be worth verifying where the original transcript was stored.

-For non-channel meetings, meeting recordings and transcripts are typically stored in the meeting organizer's OneDrive. I recommend checking both the OneDrive Recycle Bin and the second-stage Recycle Bin to see whether the transcript or recording is still available for recovery.

-For channel meetings, they are typically stored in the SharePoint site associated with the Team. You can check the Files tab of the channel and open the Recordings folder, or access the channel's associated SharePoint site. I also recommend checking the SharePoint Recycle Bin. If you don't see the item there and it was deleted recently, a site collection administrator may still be able to restore it from the site collection Recycle Bin.

You can find more details about where Teams meeting recordings and transcripts are stored in the following Microsoft article:

Manage Teams recording expiration policy - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn

Teams meeting recording and transcript storage and permissions in OneDrive and SharePoint - Microso…

If you've already checked the appropriate storage location and available Recycle Bins but still can't locate the transcript, and it has been permanently deleted from OneDrive or SharePoint, unfortunately, it won't be possible to recover it.