Jan 03, 2018 Right click the onedrive icon from system tray if you're using it on pc, and select settings: go to the account tab and unlink onedrive. If you need additional help or have more questions or details to share, please join the site so you can reply in this thread. See this link for instructions on how to join Windows Central.
You can delete a single file or entire folder in OneDrive for business. Once the items are deleted, they are moved to Recycle Bin of OneDrive Website or local computer (depending which location you deleted the file). Therefore, you can later permanently delete or restore those items.This is the subject of discussion of this article and I’ll show you how you can delete and then restore the files or folders from OneDrive for Business.Deleting Files or Folders from OneDrive Website1. Open in your favorite web browser.2. Log in with your Office 365 work or school account.3. Go to admin center.4. In Office 365 admin center, expand Admin centers and then click OneDrive.5.
Choose all the files or folders you would like to delete6. Click the delete icon located on the top bar of page7.
During confirmation, click DeleteDeleting Files or Folders from OneDrive Desktop App1. Select OneDrive folder on your computer's local drive2.
Select the files or folders you would like to delete and then hit the Enter key from your keyboardRestoring Deleted Files or Folders from OneDrive Website1. In OneDrive admin center, click ‘Recycle Bin’ on the left pane.2. Choose all the files or folders you would like to restore.3. Click Restore icon located on top bar.If you would like to permanently delete the checked files or folders, click Delete icon instead.Restoring Deleted Files or Folders from Local ComputerWhen you have deleted the items from OneDrive folder on your local computer, they are moved to Recycle Bin.1. Open Recycle Bin on your computer (by double-clicking the icon).2. Right-click the item you would like to restore and then click Restore.Deleted files or folders will be restored and moved to OneDrive folder.
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In addition to what said:Supposing you have an E3 subscription, you can use Preservation policies to preserve content stored in OneDrive/SharePoint for longer time periods or even indefinitely. It's pretty much the same as putting the content on E-discovery hold. The only difference is that the content gets deleted when the user account is de-provisioned.
More info here:However, last time I checked, there is a small UX issue with these Preservation/E-discovery holds - folders in OneDrive/SharePoint cannot be deleted unless they are empty. Users gets an error message if he tries to delete a folder with some files within it (NGSC/mobile clients work fine, web UI has this issue). Hi Erica,Can you create a preservation policy for accounts that do not exist anymore? One of the problems we are trying to solve is what to do with OD4B data after an employee leaves the company and their license is removed. We don't want to lose it after the 30 days, but we also don't want to have download indivudual users' OD4B files and keep them on prem.
Idealy, a preservation policy would work.If this is possible, do you know if there are any instructions how to to set something like this up?Thanks! But if your organization needs to retain mailbox content for former employees, you can turn the mailbox into an inactive mailbox by placing the mailbox on Litigation Hold or applying an Office 365 retention policy to the mailbox in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center and then removing the corresponding Office 365 account. The contents of an inactive mailbox are retained for the duration of the Litigation Hold placed on the mailbox or the retention period of the Office 365 retention policy applied to it before the mailbox was deleted. You can still recover the corresponding user account for a 30-day period. However, after 30 days, the inactive mailbox is retained in Office 365 until the hold or retention policy is removed. But if your organization needs to retain mailbox content for former employees, you can turn the mailbox into an inactive mailbox by placing the mailbox on Litigation Hold or applying an Office 365 retention policy to the mailbox in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center and then removing the corresponding Office 365 account. The contents of an inactive mailbox are retained for the duration of the Litigation Hold placed on the mailbox or the retention period of the Office 365 retention policy applied to it before the mailbox was deleted.
You can still recover the corresponding user account for a 30-day period. However, after 30 days, the inactive mailbox is retained in Office 365 until the hold or retention policy is removed. In case of user account that owns an OneDrive is deleted from Azure Active Directory:.
Ownership of OneDrive will be transferred to the Manager (if the Manager property in Azure AD is available).