Recycle bin preserves deleted pages, content items, emails and headless items, allowing users to recover content they accidentally deleted.
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:
Choosing the policy
When choosing the retention policy, balance the needs of the users and the available storage space. Note that assets, 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.
Users need to be granted the View permission 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:
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: