# Trash and deleting

Move files to Trash, restore them, and free up space with Delete forever.

## 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 details**
> 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.