who can see items in recycle bin?

2016-07-07

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_{Thursday, July 7, 2016 4:46 PM}

We are experiencing some behavior in a site's recycle bin that seems odd to me. On this list (I have not tested others), only the person who deleted the list item can see it. I can't even see such items and I am an administrator. I can however see them in the Site Collection recycle bin. Is this normal behavior for a recycle bin - that only the person who deleted the item can see it and thus restore it?

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_{Friday, July 8, 2016 9:36 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Did you access Site Contents > Recycle Bin? In this path, you can view the deleted files/items by yourself.

In Site Settings > Recycle Bin, there’re two views.

The first view “End user Recycle Bin items” is first-stage Recycle Bin, you can view all deleted items if you’re site collection administrator. The deleted items will be remained for a set number of days or until user deletes it manually.

The second view “Deleted from end user Recycle Bin” is second-stage Recycle Bin, you can view items which are deleted from first-stage Recycle Bin.

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Dean Wang

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_{Thursday, July 7, 2016 6:16 PM}

there are 2 recycle bins.

end user recyclebin. The first-stage Recycle Bin is located at the site level and is available to users who have Contribute, Design, or Full Control permissions on a site. The users can only see the items in that bin that they deleted. But Site collection administrator also see the items in that bin
2nd stage or site collection administrator bin, only available for the site coll admins.

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_{Thursday, July 7, 2016 6:18 PM}

Thank you. How would I go about troubleshooting the fact that I, as the site collection administrator, cannot see items in the end-user recycle bin (except the test ones I have deleted)?

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_{Thursday, July 7, 2016 9:47 PM}

you can create a test site / document library. inherit the permission then ask other users to delete the files after that you can check it.

or create a test site collection and test it there

_{Thursday, July 14, 2016 2:18 PM}

Hi,

Is there any update?

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Thanks,

Dean Wang

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