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How to recover "Tasks by Planner and To Do" tab?

Anonymous
2022-03-25T18:30:45+00:00

I deleted a newly created "Tasks by Planner and To Do" tab which was based on an existing "plan".

I didn't realize that when I deleted this newer planner tab and by checking the box in the image below that it would also remove the original plan data which this newer tab was based on:

So now I have lost everything with the original planner tab. It's not in the recycle bin of the sharepoint page. Corporate IT can't restore it but they suggested the contents might still be on the Microsoft server since our Teams stuff is hosted with Microsoft.

Is there indeed a way for Microsoft to restore an image of the tab itself, or even just revert to an older image/backup of the entire teams channel that the tab was being kept in? How would I ask for this to happen?

I realize it says "this data cannot be restored" but I don't want to give up hope. It's a huge amount of work to manually restore.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-10-04T14:23:25+00:00

    There is no restore. There is no undo. You are screwed. I recommend Google Workspace if you can’t afford to lose months worth of work. How is that even possible by any digital platform. I thought nothing is really gone. Well it is if it codes over it in real time. That’s what Microsoft said they do with this program. I asked them to come up with a SINGLE SCENARIO where mirroring something would be helpful when all changes to one are reflected in the other. What’s the point? Literally no tech support could come up with a reason this exists. But no copy/duplicate function exists which is what I suspect this function was supposed to be but got mistranslated in coding.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-06-23T21:50:35+00:00

    You misunderstand his actions. He did not delete the "Plan" where it says the notification you posted. He was working in the DUPLICATE plan he created and the changes in the duplication are happening simultaneously in the original SEPARATE task tab that the copy was made from.

    This means it is not a COPY. It is a mirror. And there is NO warning that the changes made to one task tab created from another are making the changes to the original tab.

    I am having the same situation and want to know if there is a way to restore a previous version of "Tasks by Planner and To Do" as a work around to the changes that were made.

    No recovery option is INSANE!

    Also insane is the idea that a new SEPARATE tab is an exact mirror and not a COPY!!!

    Hi LMC_CCMC,

    I agree with everything you said, I was trying to help a colleague and just seem to have done the same thing, were you ever able to figure out how to restore?

    Thanks in advance

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-17T11:21:39+00:00

    I got burned by this too. Very poor UI on creating new Task list via "Tasks by Planner and To Do->Use an Existing plan from this team". A mirror is created, not a copy. No way to back up or restore the Task Planner. Not enterprise ready Microsoft. Love the tool but too risky to use in large teams. I had 189 users who don't like me much today.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-22T21:06:02+00:00

    Completely agree mirroring is not coping, please correct this ASAP>

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-06-28T22:38:02+00:00

    My company's IT team reached out to their own Microsoft support and were also told it was unrecoverable. So basically there's no solution for a recovery. It's pretty bad. I hope MS fixes this issue. I'm still using Planner but I'm very nervous about it ever getting deleted by mistake :(

    Oh my gosh that sounds awful! Ugh. Yeah I'm struggling to still use what my company wants us to and not be terrified I'm going to lose everything but also not make more work for myself....thanks so much for the reply!!

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