driveItem: permanentDelete

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Permanently delete a driveItem by using its ID. If you delete items using this method, they are permanently removed and won't be sent to the recycle bin. Therefore, they 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
✅	❌	❌	❌

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/v1.0/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.