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driveItem: permanentDelete

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Permanently delete a driveItem by using its ID. If you delete items using this method, they're permanently removed and aren't sent to the recycle bin, unlike the Delete driveItem API, which sends the item to the recycle bin. Therefore, permanently deleted drive items can't be restored afterward.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet
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Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Files.ReadWrite Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Files.ReadWrite Files.ReadWrite.All
Application Files.ReadWrite.All Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/permanentDelete

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Accept application/json

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Example

The following example shows how to call this API.

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/permanentDelete

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Error responses

For details about how errors are returned, see Error Responses.