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title: Recycle bin management
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/recycle-bin.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Recycle bin preserves deleted [pages](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/website-content.md), [content items](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/content-hub/content-items.md), [emails](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/digital-marketing/emails.md) and [headless items](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/headless-content.md), allowing users to recover content they accidentally deleted.

## Adjust the retention policy

The system permanently deletes items in the recycle bin after a period of time specified by the retention policy to prevent content from accumulating. By default, deleted items are kept for 30 days.

To adjust the policy:

1. Open the **Settings** application.
2. Go to the **Content → Recycle bin** category.
3. Set the number of days after which an item in the recycle bin will be permanently deleted.
4. **Save** the changes.

> **Info:** **Choosing the policy**
>
> When choosing the retention policy, balance the needs of the users and the available storage space. Note that [assets](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/content-hub/content-item-assets.md), such as pictures or videos, uploaded to content items remain on the file system until the item is deleted permanently.
>
> Setting the policy limit too low can lead to the loss of content that users want to restore, while setting it too high can result in consuming too much storage space if the items in the bin include large assets.

## Permissions

Users need to be granted the _View_ [permission](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/users/role-management.md) to access the recycle bin application and work with their items in the recycle bin. Each user with a _View_ permission can perform these actions for the items they deleted:

- [restore](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/recycle-bin.md#restore-deleted-items) an item
- [permanently delete](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/recycle-bin.md#permanently-delete-items-from-recycle-bin) an item

The administrator and users with the _Manage recycle bin_ permission can see all items in the recycle bin, including items deleted by other users, and they can restore or permanently delete any item.

However, to successfully restore an item, users also need to have the _Create_ permission for the space where the item will be restored:

- Emails and headless items – _Create_ [permission](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/users/role-management.md) for the relevant headless or email channel application
- Content items – _Create_ [permission for the given workspace](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/users/role-management.md#assign-permissions-to-roles)
- Pages – _Create_ [permission](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/users/role-management/page-permission-management.md) for the original page location