Deleted Sharepoint Files

Question

We have thousands of deleted files sitting in the Recycle bin that we wish to restore. When trying to restore any more than ~ 20 files at any one time we get an error "The operation has timed out".

Is there any way to restore all files at once? Twenty at a time is going to take several days of constant restoring by a staff member.... It was a lot easier for the files to be deleted than it is to restore.

Obviously this is a catastrophic issue for our business, Microsoft must have a better solution for this?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

I just worked with MS support on this same issue. You can change the view to the classic experience and restore 200 objects at a time (shift-click doesn't work, click the box at the top of the column).

Answer 2

Hi Geoff_206,

Have you browser my post? If the issue persists, you could come back. And share the information I required in the previous post.

Regards,

Jonk

Answer 3

Hi Geoff_206,

Based on your description, When you try to restore any more than 20 files at any one time you will get an error "The operation has timed out".

In order to identify the scoop this issue, could you provide some information:

1. The URL of the problem site.
2. Other sites whether encounter this issue.
3. Your tenant information. To protect your privacy, I have sent you a private message for the information, you can access it via this link: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/privatemessage/inbox.

Regards,

Jonk