Trash and deleting

Moving to Trash #

Choose Move to Trash from a file or folder's menu, or select several and use Move to Trash on the selection. Trashed items disappear from your folders but are not gone yet.

Restoring #

Open Trash in the Drive sidebar. Every item there has Restore, which puts it back where it came from.

Deleting for good #

In Trash, Delete forever removes a single item permanently, and Empty Trash removes everything. There is no undo after this.

Items in Trash still count towards your storage total. Only Delete forever or Empty Trash frees up space.

Security detailsWhat is this?

Moving to Trash is a soft delete: the file is marked deleted and its encrypted blocks stay in storage until you delete it for good. Delete forever removes the file record, and a background sweeper removes blocks no file refers to any more. Copies that were saved to another Drive, for example by a transfer recipient, have their own records and are not affected.